On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:43:20 +0200, Erwan Velu wrote:
> Some vendors like HPe or Dell, encodes the release version of their BIOS
encodes -> encode
> in the "System BIOS {Major|Minor} Release" fields of Type 0.
>
> This information is useful to know which release of the bios is actually running.
> It could be used for some quirks, debugging sessions or inventory tasks.
>
> This patch extract these 2 fields in DMI_BIOS_MAJOR_RELEASE & DMI_BIOS_MINOR_RELEASE.
>
> A typical output for a Dell system running the 65.27 bios is :
>
> [root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_release_major
> 65
> [root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_release_minor
> 27
> [root@t1700 ~]#
I don't think we want two fields. This adds quite some overhead, and
they are not independent from each other anyway. I'd rather have one
field with the values combined:
[root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_release
65.27
[root@t1700 ~]#
This would also be in line with how it was implemented in dmidecode. Is
there any reason to NOT go that route?
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
