Re: [PATCH} SMBIOS support

From: Corey Minyard (minyard@acm.org)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 15:48:54 EST


Alan Cox wrote:

>>The following patch adds support for reading the SMBIOS table (which
>>contains system management information). It's required for IPMI and has
>>useful information in it. But anyway, since I did the work, I thought I
>>would post this.
>>
>
>We already have DMI table parsing code in 2.4 and 2.5. Its been there for
>a very long time. Please use that instead
>
>
>Alan
>
Ah, now I see. All the documentation I had referenced SMBIOS and didn't
say much about DMI, so I searched around everywhere for SMBIOS, not for DMI.

Thanks,

-Corey

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