Desktop Management Interface; Dmi Information Structure - HP Vectra VE5 2 Technical Reference Manual

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DESKTOP MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

This chapter describes an important feature of HP's new style BIOS, the Desktop Management

Interface or DMI.

This BIOS presents a new method for storing and accessing information about the PC, called

the Desktop Management Interface or DMI.

The system administrator uses the DMI to access information about the PC, such as the BIOS

version number, the serial number, the processor type, and the size of the hard disk drive. This

information is stored in the Management Information Format Database, or MIF.

Pointers are used to indicate the position of a table or a string value. The following rules apply

to pointers:

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Pointers must never be zero. For empty strings, the pointer must point to a null (zero)

value.

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Far pointers are in Intel (little endian) format, with the segment in the high word and the

offset in the low word.

All string values are terminated by a null (zero) value.

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