From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 05:45:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1267516A405 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 05:45:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dr2867@pacbell.net) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE07613C4BB for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 05:45:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dr2867@pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 96133 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 05:45:50 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=d8UoeWSHQDRMJiP3xT1zEXyz58PkA1OGq+KJCWLpxntOUq/PvUoMUwjhUE0YVLS4oNAJcRDPulZ3pvIc1Ow9cDK6iQecdvdA3lbQcr8eD4TLIQT9Dy+mHegkQG/MmWiAksPH+wQtihOJz9P3k4upIGPbntG719DkWMqTNMfNHM4= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.190?) (dr2867.business@pacbell.net@71.146.53.89 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 05:45:50 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: mbCh5eEVM1mXvWNhCmR_Fwwl.Gb93I.TSxEP6XQqbggISmiKM6bGxXj6US6FsLv9SGvBkz3Fi_fLVWC2LG9MMFSyIa1uSFCSI5ohk4cnAGjl66MxQim.tIcXjp7pl7pwaHWMe8v1wfMJtl0- Message-ID: <45C2D0F7.3000007@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:49:43 -0800 From: Daniel Rudy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11R6; UNIX; FreeBSD/i386 6.1-RELEASE-p7; en-US; ja-JP; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070201.113851.689651534.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070201104917.C82313@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201.124057.709402517.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070201.124057.709402517.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jon.passki@hursk.com, rizzo@icir.org, fbsd@metro.cx, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unique hardware identification X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:45:51 -0000 At about the time of 2/1/2007 11:40 AM, M. Warner Losh stated the following: > In message: <20070201104917.C82313@xorpc.icir.org> > Luigi Rizzo writes: > : On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> > : > Peter Jeremy 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." > > Heh! > > My comment though is why do we have to go to kenv when we could > export these via sysctl, like everything else. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You know that's a good idea, but there is a problem with that.... None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1. I can't even find dmidump anywhere on the system or in ports either. -- Daniel Rudy