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Author SHA1 Message Date
Beth Kon
09c0848e52 Add/Fix command-line checks for smbios options v2
- One type 4 table is required per cpu. Add a check for this.
- Fix check for smbios file.

Changes from v1:
- static designation of smbios_validate_table, and remove whitespace

Signed-off-by: Beth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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2009-08-10 13:05:48 -05:00
aliguori
b6f6e3d3a7 qemu: Add support for SMBIOS command line otions (Alex Williamson)
Create a new -smbios option (x86-only) to allow binary SMBIOS entries
to be passed through to the BIOS or modify the default values of
individual fields of type 0 and 1 entries on the command line.

Binary SMBIOS entries can be generated as follows:

dmidecode -t 1 -u | grep $'^\t\t[^"]' | xargs -n1 | \
        perl -lne 'printf "%c", hex($_)' > smbios_type_1.bin

These can then be passed to the BIOS using this switch:

 -smbios file=smbios_type_1.bin

Command line generation supports the following syntax:

 -smbios type=0[,vendor=str][,version=str][,date=str][,release=%d.%d]
 -smbios type=1[,manufacturer=str][,product=str][,version=str][,serial=str]
              [,uuid=$(uuidgen)][,sku=str][,family=str]

For instance, to add a serial number to the type 1 table:

 -smbios type=1,serial=0123456789

Interface is extensible to support more fields/tables as needed.

aliguori: remove texi formatting from help output

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7163 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-04-17 18:59:56 +00:00