Lennart Poettering on Nostr: The obvious question now is of course what SMBIOS type 11 objects are. SMBIOS itself ...
The obvious question now is of course what SMBIOS type 11 objects are. SMBIOS itself is a mostly static binary table that the firmware of PCs puts together, that describes various aspects of the system, and then passes to the OS. You can read this data via the "dmidecode" tool.
The SMBIOS tables contain a lot of information. Of particular interest to systemd is object type #11. These are supposed to contain generic "vendor strings". (see the SMBIOS spec:
https://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/ for details)
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