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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: unique hardware identification 
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> On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Please elaborate.  kenv(8) states that it first appeared in 4.1.1 and
> I don't recall seeing any reference to 'dmidump' in this thread.
> 
> If you're referring to getting smbios data reported in kenv - that is
> up to your system/BIOS vendor:  If they don't embed the information in
> the BIOS, FreeBSD can't report it.  The response on my laptop is
> complete.  My older whitebox desktops either don't have the data
> populated or don't report it at all.

kenv appeared in 4.1, the smbios. stuff only appeared midway in 6.1

danny