[hackers] Re: Realtek

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
> Regarding vpd, some documentation (at least in NOTES) would be nice.
> I shouldn't have to RTFS to understand what you're talking about.

Build /sys/modules/bios/vpd, install/load it, read the kernel output.  It
also provides all the information via sysctl:

# sysctl hw.vpd
hw.vpd.machine.type.0: 2645
hw.vpd.machine.model.0: 8BU
hw.vpd.build_id.0: INET36WW
hw.vpd.serial.box.0: 78PLGM9
hw.vpd.serial.planar.0: J1B369624W5

> > It won't work at all with ACPI; don't use it.
>
> "don't use ACPI" or "don't use sio"?

Don't use ACPI.

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