On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 07:44 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:17 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > On 19.12.2007 01:35, Marc Jones wrote: > > > Steve Isaacs wrote: > > > > > The requirement I'm struggling with is for our Linux based applications > to be able to identify the hardware and firmware (part numbers and > revision numbers) it is running on for support and update reasons. The > applications I'm referring to will be running on LinuxBIOS and > commercial BIOS machines with custom hardware. A consistent means of > identifying either is needed. SMBIOS (System Management BIOS > http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/) can be used for this purpose. > A followup: I'm going to use an alternative approach -- the needed information is already there or can be easily embedded just use a different mechanism to access it. SMBIOS just complicates things.
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