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Old 03-26-2011, 01:52 PM   #1
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To Be Filled By O.E.M. WTF!! We are the OEM and we don't know how to do it. Any hint?


Hi,

so this is it, we are stocked with this.

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We send appliances to the costumer and since some days ago the machines come from a new vendor.
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the machines has new bios and motherboard : http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios
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we would like to use /sys/class/dmi/id to identify the machines. So they become unique by its serial number.
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this is the output that we can get from id directory:

id # for filename in *; do [[ -f ${filename} ]] && echo ${filename}: && cat ${filename}; done

bios_date:

07/12/2010

bios_vendor:

American Megatrends Inc.

bios_version:

080015

board_asset_tag:

To Be Filled By O.E.M.

board_name:

To be filled by O.E.M.

board_serial:

To be filled by O.E.M.

board_vendor:

To be filled by O.E.M.

board_version:

To be filled by O.E.M.

chassis_asset_tag:

To Be Filled By O.E.M.

chassis_serial:

To Be Filled By O.E.M.

chassis_type:

3

chassis_vendor:

To Be Filled By O.E.M.

chassis_version:

To Be Filled By O.E.M.

modalias:

dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd07/12
/2010:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.nToBeFilledByO.E.M.vrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rnTobefi lledbyO.E.M.:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: product_name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. product_serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M. product_uuid: 00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009 product_version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. sys_vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. uevent: MODALIAS=dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd07/12/2010:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.nToBeFilledByO.E.M.vrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rnTobefi lledbyO.E.M.:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
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we are trying some tools to edit this bios values without success.

Has anyone edited dmi data before? Please teach me.
 
Old 03-26-2011, 02:41 PM   #2
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See this too. http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom
http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS may a good source for ideas. In effect a bios is like any memory location but you have to actually write to it. I think we used to do that in debug way back when before flash programs came out. Then we would download the bios and edit it and then return it.

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