What: /dev/wmi/dell-smbios Date: November 2017 KernelVersion: 4.15 Contact: Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com Description: Perform SMBIOS calls on supported Dell machines. through the Dell ACPI-WMI interface. IOCTL's and buffer formats are defined in: <uapi/linux/wmi.h> 1) To perform an SMBIOS call from userspace, you'll need to first determine the minimum size of the calling interface buffer for your machine. Platforms that contain larger buffers can return larger objects from the system firmware. Commonly this size is either 4k or 32k. To determine the size of the buffer read() a u64 dword from the WMI character device /dev/wmi/dell-smbios. 2) After you've determined the minimum size of the calling interface buffer, you can allocate a structure that represents the structure documented above. 3) In the 'length' object store the size of the buffer you determined above and allocated. 4) In this buffer object, prepare as necessary for the SMBIOS call you're interested in. Typically SMBIOS buffers have "class", "select", and "input" defined to values that coincide with the data you are interested in. Documenting class/select/input values is outside of the scope of this documentation. Check with the libsmbios project for further documentation on these values. 6) Run the call by using ioctl() as described in the header. 7) The output will be returned in the buffer object. 8) Be sure to free up your allocated object.