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dmidecode and UEFI

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Neil Waldhauer:
When we look at hardware, one of the tools we use is dmidecode.exe (version 2.12) This tool displays a wealth of information about the system, and we use it to fill out hardware reports for the wiki.

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Extracting_Hardware_Information_from_ArcaOS_and_OS/2

With UEFI support coming in ArcaOS 5.1, our port of dmidecode isn't working any more. We need dmidecode v3, apparently, which uses the UEFI to display the system information. I'm curious to know if anyone has looked into what would be required to port dmidecode v3.

Andy Willis:
I've long ago ported v3.
https://github.com/abwillis/dmidecode
However, I have not yet gotten UEFI support worked out. 

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Andy

Do you have any binary release of version 3 to give it a try?

Regards

Tom:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on November 24, 2022, 11:15:27 pm ---Hi Andy

Do you have any binary release of version 3 to give it a try?

Regards

--- End quote ---

On https://github.com/abwillis/dmidecode/releases it says "There aren't any releases here".
Source code is available (see e.g. https://github.com/abwillis/dmidecode/archive/refs/tags/dmidecode-3-3.zip), so maybe someone can try to compile that.

Neil Waldhauer:

--- Quote from: Andy Willis on November 24, 2022, 10:59:05 pm ---I've long ago ported v3.
https://github.com/abwillis/dmidecode
However, I have not yet gotten UEFI support worked out.

--- End quote ---

What are the obstacles? It looks to me like you need to have part running on the UEFI boot environment that leaves DMI data for the dmidecode to read (and decode).

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