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firmware/dmi: Report DMI Bios & EC firmware release

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Some vendors like HPe or Dell, encode the release version of their BIOS
in the "System BIOS {Major|Minor} Release" fields of Type 0.

This information is used to know which bios release actually runs.
It could be used for some quirks, debugging sessions or inventory tasks.

A typical output for a Dell system running the 65.27 bios is :
	[root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_release
	65.27
	[root@t1700 ~]#

Servers that have a BMC encode the release version of their firmware in the
 "Embedded Controller Firmware {Major|Minor} Release" fields of Type 0.

This information is used to know which BMC release actually runs.
It could be used for some quirks, debugging sessions or inventory tasks.

A typical output for a Dell system running the 3.75 bmc release is :
    [root@t1700 ~]# cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/ec_firmware_release
    3.75
    [root@t1700 ~]#

Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu <e.velu@criteo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
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Erwan Velu
2020-06-06 11:35:50 +02:00
committed by Jean Delvare
parent 3d77e6a880
commit f5152f4ded
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@@ -954,6 +954,8 @@ static const struct dmifield {
{ "bvn", DMI_BIOS_VENDOR },
{ "bvr", DMI_BIOS_VERSION },
{ "bd", DMI_BIOS_DATE },
{ "br", DMI_BIOS_RELEASE },
{ "efr", DMI_EC_FIRMWARE_RELEASE },
{ "svn", DMI_SYS_VENDOR },
{ "pn", DMI_PRODUCT_NAME },
{ "pvr", DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION },