Re: [coreboot] Finding whether the BIOS is coreboot or not

[Andreas Kreuzinger]

Hi,

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* Kevin Wilson  [2015-07-19 07:45]:
> Thanks for all the responses.
> Short questions:
> I saw. on my system::
> cat  /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor
> coreboot
>
> Is it equivalent to
> dmidecode -t bios | grep Vendor
>         Vendor: coreboot
>
> What I mean is: does dmidecode in fact read the
> /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor  entry?

[...snip...]

Seems so:
ctvdr:~# cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor
coreboot

Let's take a different example:
erwin:~# dmidecode -t bios | grep Vendor
        Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
erwin:~# cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor
Award Software International, Inc.

If you want to be sure, verify with the dmidecode source code.

BTW: I found a shorter dmidecode command line:
ctvdr:~# dmidecode -s bios-vendor
coreboot

@ndy