Accessing Bios Dmi Information - HP Vectra VL5 4 Technical Reference Manual

Overview of the DMI Information Structure

ACCESSING BIOS DMI INFORMATION

To access BIOS information, do the following steps:
1 Locate the DMI header.
Search for the "$DMI" signature in the segment E0000:0 or F0000:0.
2 Verify the checksums.
Refer to "Verifying the DMI Information Structure," in this chapter.
3 Locate the first sub-structure table using the far pointer given in the DMI header.
4 Walk through the tables to locate the desired table.
Each table is identified by a unique type. The type is given by the first byte of the table.
The length of the table is given by the second byte. The next table follows immediately
after the current one.