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From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>
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Subject: [patch] MFC of vpd driver for IBM xSeries etc
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>Number:         67011
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       [vpd] [patch] MFC of vpd driver for IBM xSeries etc
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    mdodd
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 21 14:10:21 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 24 00:40:34 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 24 00:40:34 GMT 2007
>Originator:     Geoff Buckingham
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE  i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD  4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #4: Fri May 21 16:26:26 BST 2004     root@:/o2/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


	
>Description:
IBM xSeries servers, thinkpads etc keep 'vital product data' in 
	the BIOS being able to read this data allows you to find serial 
	numbers, model numbers for remote machines. Current got the vpd
	driver ages ago never been MFC'd. 

	Tested for funtionality and repeated kldload/unload on IBM Thinkpad T23
	and x342.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
NA
	
>Fix:
In short vpd.c from current just works, however to be precise....
	Take following from current keeping paths in 4.10 src
	 src/sys/i386/bios/vpd.c	(v1.2)
	 src/sys/modules/bios/vpd/Makefile  (v1.1)
	 src/sys/modules/bios/Makefile	(v1.1)

	remove 'smapi' and 'smbios' from SUBDIR= line of src/sys/modules/bios/Makefile
	(leaves only vpd) 
	add 'bios' to src/sys/modules/Makefile SUBDIR= line. (v1.110.2.83)


	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->mdodd 
Responsible-Changed-By: vs 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 20 07:49:15 GMT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to author 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67011 

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/67011: [vpd] [patch] MFC of vpd driver for IBM xSeries etc
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:15:14 +0100

 The code mentioned in this PR has existed in all releases of FreeBSD
 since 5.1-RELEASE.  The submitter was requesting that this support be
 MFC'd to the 4.x branch.  As 4.x is now end-of-life, this PR should be
 closed.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 24 00:39:46 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Apparently this was never merged back to 4, but in the meantime, support 
for 4 has been dropped. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67011 
>Unformatted:
