system identification

[soralx at cydem.org]

> ISTR that there is a semi-standard way of obtaining the system (or
> motherboard) manufacturer and model from the BIOS or CMOS on PC
> clones, but all I can find right now is the BIOS copyright string
> starting at fe00:000e.  Can anyone here refresh my memory?
> DES

This might not be exactly what you need, but see
'/usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode' for some code. AFAIK,
this approach should work on most newer machines.

Is it necessary to obtain the mainboard manufacturer/model,
or knowing chipset would be enough?

Timestamp: 0x425518CE
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