[coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

Giri girim77 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 01:49:04 CEST 2014


I believe the request is about filling SMBIOS Table Type 1 – System Information. 

 

Fields like Manufacturer, Product Name, Version, Serial Number, UUID, SKU Number, Family….

 

Some fields are unique per platform / system like Serial Number, UUID. 

 

-Giri

 

From: coreboot [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org] On Behalf Of ron minnich
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 11:24 PM
To: Patrick Georgi
Cc: coreboot
Subject: Re: [coreboot] setting smbios values from the OS

 

 

 

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de <mailto:patrick at georgi-clan.de> > wrote:



In the end, I pose the question why a serial number must be exported to
the OS in the first place - this looks like a potential privacy issue to
me, while doing nothing for servicing the part (if it's sent back, read
the bar code).

 

There I also agree. I don't like electronically readable serial numbers in general on computers.

 

ron 

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