[ipxe-devel] uuid mangling patch

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Tue Mar 19 16:09:03 UTC 2013


On 19/03/13 13:25, Robin Smidsrød wrote:
> On 19.03.2013 13:29, Michael Brown wrote:
>> I don't know why different BIOSes seem to have different endianness conventions
>> for UUIDs.  If other tools (e.g. dmidecode) are able to extract the "correct"
>> UUID, then it would be interesting to find out how.
>
> Is it possible another value in the SMBIOS information contains
> information about the endianness of the UUID field?

Nothing I've found, though I haven't looked too hard.

Michael



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