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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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Subject: Re: unique hardware identification
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
>             Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> : On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wrote:
> : >If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ 
> : >UUID [1] available.  This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the  
> : >smbios.system.uuid field.
> : 
> : You can also get it via kenv(8) without needing any ports:
> : # kenv smbios.system.uuid
> : 9F345F4F-BEFC-D431-1340-61235A56DEF9
> 
> I wonder why the smbios stuff isn't exported via sysctls as well...

and this is probably a lazy vendor :)

	smbios.bios.reldate="07/12/2006"
	smbios.bios.vendor="American Megatrends Inc."
	smbios.bios.version="P1.10"
	smbios.chassis.maker="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
	smbios.chassis.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
	smbios.chassis.tag="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
	smbios.chassis.version="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
	smbios.planar.maker="                      "
	smbios.planar.product="775i945GZ"
	smbios.planar.serial="                      "
	smbios.planar.version="                      "
	smbios.socket.enabled="1"
	smbios.socket.populated="1"
	smbios.system.maker="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
	smbios.system.product="775i945GZ"
	smbios.system.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
	smbios.system.uuid="00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009"
	smbios.system.version="To Be Filled By O.E.M."

cheers
luigi