Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:40:57 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rizzo@icir.org Cc: jon.passki@hursk.com, fbsd@metro.cx, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unique hardware identification Message-ID: <20070201.124057.709402517.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070201104917.C82313@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070201.113851.689651534.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070201104917.C82313@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> 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 <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."
Heh!
My comment though is why do we have to go to kenv when we could
export these via sysctl, like everything else.
Warner
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