Smolt vs. dmidecode
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 1 05:32:24 UTC 2007
Sean Bruno wrote:
> Just a curious point.
>
> I noted that my smolt profile doesn't indicate my system's motherboard
> model/revision information. I guess ASUS just never got around to
> filling in the bits at whatever location smolt is looking.
>
> UUID: 2f04459f-c147-4b96-b912-24b8534bc6e2
> OS: Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
> Default run level: 5
> Language: en_US.UTF-8
> Platform: x86_64
> BogoMIPS: 2010.05
> CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
> CPU Model: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
> Number of CPUs: 2
> CPU Speed: 2000
> System Memory: 5950
> System Swap: 1983
> Vendor: System manufacturer
> System: System Product Name System Version
>
> It also seems that dmidecode pulls that information, but is is able to
> get the mobo model/revision info from the BIOS at a different location:
>
> # dmidecode 2.7
> SMBIOS 2.3 present.
> 56 structures occupying 1766 bytes.
> Table at 0x000F0000.
>
> Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
> BIOS Information
> Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
> Version: ASUS K8N-DL ACPI BIOS Revision 1008
> Release Date: 02/17/2006
>
>
> Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
> System Information
> Manufacturer: System manufacturer
> Product Name: System Product Name
> Version: System Version
> Serial Number: System Serial Number
> UUID: 50ECB49C-06A4-D911-B7D5-E9686682C17E
>
>
> Any chance that smolt can be modified in the same way? Just a thought.
File a enhancement request at
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/newticket.
Rahul
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