On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I just downloaded and tested Arjan deVen's dmidecode.c program.
> That will do what I want, but it has the irritating problem that
> it requires root privileges for access to /dev/kmem.
Yup, needs to map BIOS tables.
> Is the DMI data available in /proc files anywhere?
Nope.
> If not, should it be?
Questionable. Dumping this in /proc just to make kernel autoconfig
easier seems dreadful overkill.
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