From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 00:25:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10574 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:25:06 -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 AAA10569 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA13169; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:54:47 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708030724.QAA13169@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DMI anyone ? In-Reply-To: <1519.870530784@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 2, 97 04:06:24 pm" To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:54:47 +0930 (CST) Cc: 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: > > Does anybody have in insight or interest in the DMI stuff ? > > (http://www.dmtf.org) 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)... -- ]] 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 [[