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| author | Regina König | 2020-06-23 21:04:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Regina König | 2020-06-23 21:04:08 +0200 |
| commit | 1f6ad077f65d12ee7f81998218730253cf281030 (patch) | |
| tree | 8608c6052ea79c8ed8300408bbedc129736b6db3 /documentation | |
| parent | created new directory for general information (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/UEFI/Access SMBIOS | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/UEFI/UEFI Shell commands | 21 | ||||
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diff --git a/documentation/UEFI/Access SMBIOS b/documentation/UEFI/Access SMBIOS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd20f5f --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/UEFI/Access SMBIOS @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +(several forums) + +INSIDE UEFI: + EFI_CONFIGURATION_TABLE contains entries pointing to the SMBIOS2 and/or SMBIOS3 tables + +FROM UEFI Shell: + SmbiosView command + +FROM LINUX: + SMBIOS decoder: dmidecode(8) + +WINDOWS: + WMI + +Generating SMBIOS data: +Table&structure creation is normally up to the system firmware/BIOS. +UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) spec includes SMBIOS protocol (EFI_SMBIOS_PROTOCOL) that allows components +to submit SMBIOS structures for incluseion, enables producer to create SMBIOS table for a platform. + +Some hardware information is available through ACPI and DMI. The ACPI tables are technically provided through UEFI, +by virtue of passing one pointer (and supposed by leaving the relevant memory reserved, in the memory map +which the IS is passed by UEFI. + +Platform virtualization software can also generate SMBIOS tables for use inside VMs, for instance qemu. + +--> Desktop Management BIOS Specification 2/3 diff --git a/documentation/UEFI/UEFI Shell commands b/documentation/UEFI/UEFI Shell commands new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d94913f --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/UEFI/UEFI Shell commands @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +TODO !!!! + +ping ping target host with IPv4 stack +reconnect +reset +rm +sermode +set +setsize +setvar +shift +smbiosview +stall +tftp +time +timezone +touch +type send the contents of a file to the standard dev output +unload +ver UEFI Firmware version information +vol displays or modifies information about a disc volume diff --git a/documentation/questions b/documentation/questions new file mode 100644 index 0000000..835f66e --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/questions @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Presentation: Show differences in implementation for BIOS and UEFI? |