Hi all, On 06/24/2009 10:17 AM, Andre Prendel wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:03:13AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> >> On 06/21/2009 10:35 AM, Andre Prendel wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:15:39AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>> Hi, >>> Hi Hans, >>> >>> First, sorry for bad response times. I'm very busy with private stuff >>> at the moment. I'll change the company I'm working for. This is >>> related with moving back to my hometown (Dresden). >>> >> Ok, np. >> >>>> <snip> >>>> >>>>> Thanks for all the material. I read some stuff about DMI and SMBIOS >>>>> yesterday. Further I checked out the dmidecode source code. I will >>>>> go on with investigation by reading the mailing list discussions etc. >>>>> >>>> I don't think you need to dig that deep wrt DMI, >>> I want to know how things work at low level. This makes things easier >>> to understand for me. >>> >>>> what we will most likely >>>> and up doing is looking for the strings found inside >>>> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name >>>> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_vendor >>> I can't see these files in sysfs. What driver is responsible for creation? >>> >> Hmm, strange, I dunno on all my systems they just exists. Weird, maybe you >> are running a somewhat old kernel ? > > Ok, I've found the files on my system under /sys/class/dmi/id/. Driver > /drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c creates the files. The driver was > introduced in 2007. > Hmm, ok, I have them there too (/sys/class/dmi/id is a symlink to /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id on my system), so if /sys/class/dmi/id works on more systems / kernel configs lets use that. > Jean, could you bring some light into the darkness? I've seen you did > some work on the DMI stuff. > > I'm using the most recent mainline kernel form git. Hans, what version > do you use? > I'm using a stock Fedora 11 kernel, I think this might be related to the various sysfs compatibility kernel configuration options. > BTW, Jean. Hans asked me for working on the automatic configuration of > sensors using DMI information. > Ack, its still something which I would like to see done, so I suggested the idea to Andre. Andre, as said before I think once you're done orienting yourself, the first thing to do is write a proposal how this all will work and send it to the list. Regards, Hans
