get DMI information in kernel

[Doug Ambrisko]

m.ehinger at ltur.de writes:
| Hello,
| how do i get DMI Informations (stuff displayed by dmidecode)  in a kernel module?
| 
| I need some "System Information" like Vendor,Model and OEM String identifying hardware on a Thinkpad.
| 
| Can anybody give me a hint on that?

You can look at the ipmi(4) driver.  It gets the IPMI HW info via SMBIOS.
There is also and smbios driver as well.

Doug A.