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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