Hardware Database
Maxwell Kanat-Alexander
maxka at myrealbox.com
Tue Nov 11 09:40:46 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 06:08, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:51:37AM -0800, Maxwell Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 14:39, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Beware that a lot of BIOS vendors put utter garbage in their DMI tables.
> >
> > Do you know if there's any sense to this garbage? I've noticed a lot of
> > "System Manufacturer: System Manufacturer" sort of things -- is this a
> > common pattern, or do we just have to figure it out in some fuzzy way?
>
> Sometimes its empty fields, sometimes random characters, sometimes
> complete lies (Like saying it has a full length EISA slot in a laptop)
Sigh. I guess we'll have to fuzz it one way or another. We'll have to
check for certain impossible things, too, like that full-length EISA
slot in a laptop.
-M
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