From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 01:56:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA14583 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA14578 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA13491; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:26:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708030856.SAA13491@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DMI anyone ? In-Reply-To: <8047.870593378@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 3, 97 09:29:38 am" To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:26:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, phk@dk.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > > >See the earlier thread on SMBIOS/DMI, and Phoenix's tech stuff page > >for the SMBIOS spec. > > > >Bottom line : we need a means for making 16-bit BIOS calls (16-bit > >protected mode interface is part of the spec)... > > I was in that thread. This was more a question along the line of > > "would DMI/SMBIOS support (whatever it means) buy us anything ?" Oops, so you were. Apologies. IMHO, yes. If nothing else, it'd be a checkmark feature, but I think that there are a number of useful things that DMI could offer. On systems that support it, the extra information at the hardware level might be handy, but IMHO it's the higher-level management functions that would make it a winner; to be able to drop a BSD box into someone`s DMI schema and have it behave would be useful. Having said that, it's worth studying the recent history of DMI; a lot of people seem very lukewarm on it. > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[