SMBIOS(4)

💅 SMBIOS(4) — System Management BIOS

okay so bestie, welcome to the smbios page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet, and honestly? it ate. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

smbios — System Management BIOS

like, the whole vibe of this page is literally right there in the name 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

so there's two ways to get this driver into your life, and you get to pick your fighter 🥊

Option one: compile it straight into the kernel — drop these lines into your kernel configuration file:

device smbios

Option two: load it as a module at boot time instead, by putting this line in loader.conf(5):

smbios_load="YES"

both valid, both iconic, no cap 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) describes hardware components. that's it. that's the whole description. short king energy 👑 but like, it's doing a lot of work under the hood, fr fr.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• efi(8)
• System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Reference Specification, DMTF DSP0134.

go read the spec if you're feeling nerdy, iykyk 📚✨

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

the smbios device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.8. a real legacy queen, lowkey 💀👑

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

the smbios device driver was written by Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>. this manual page was written by Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>.

thank you for your service, legends 🙏💐

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okay that's the whole page, you're welcome, mwah 💋 this cutie comes to you from Debian, dated April 22, 2020 — periodt 🎀✨