<p>This change exposes the SMBios attributes for the board serial and board product.</p>
<p>This enables for unique identification of Blade nodes, where the chassis serial will be the same as all other blades in the chassis.</p>
<p>We currently use these attributes at Shopify to uniquely identify nodes at boot time, where we can't depend on other attributes such as UUID to exist.</p>
<p>It's a relatively minor change, and expands the existing functionality by exposing additional standard SMBios attributes, which are particularly useful on blade nodes / where there are multiple nodes per chassis.</p>
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<h4>You can merge this Pull Request by running</h4>
<pre> git pull https://github.com/OpenSRE/ipxe board-vendor-serial-smbios</pre>
<p>Or view, comment on, or merge it at:</p>
<p> <a href='https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21'>https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21</a></p>
<h4>Commit Summary</h4>
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<li>Expose board-serial and board-product through SMBios</li>
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<h4>File Changes</h4>
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<a href="https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21/files#diff-0">src/interface/smbios/smbios_settings.c</a>
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<h4>Patch Links:</h4>
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<li><a href='https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21.patch'>https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21.patch</a></li>
<li><a href='https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21.diff'>https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/21.diff</a></li>
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