On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 06:08, Dave Jones wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:51:37AM -0800, Maxwell Kanat-Alexander
wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 14:39, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Beware that a lot of BIOS vendors put utter garbage in their DMI tables.
>
> Do you know if there's any sense to this garbage? I've noticed a lot of
> "System Manufacturer: System Manufacturer" sort of things -- is this a
> common pattern, or do we just have to figure it out in some fuzzy way?
Sometimes its empty fields, sometimes random characters, sometimes
complete lies (Like saying it has a full length EISA slot in a laptop)
Sigh. I guess we'll have to fuzz it one way or another. We'll have to
check for certain impossible things, too, like that full-length EISA
slot in a laptop.
-M