SMBIOS23.XML file Update

[Tim_Fettig at Dell.com]

Hello,
	Since I work with capabilities of the dumpSmbios_IPS
application, I will offer my insight.
The structure elements that you are referencing are marked as obsolete
and so it would be expected that you might find newer machines that no
longer have entities for structure values 5 and 6. Using the
SMBIOS23.XML, either on the command line for dumpsSmbios_IPS or, after
compiling the XML into the header file and recompiling your libraries
and application, should work just fine. I strongly recommend compiling
the XML with the Python script (genSmbiosDefs.py) and then completely
rebuilding all libraries and applications.  

	Here in IPS we use the structure values 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20
to find all the information you could ever want to know about memory
devices and their logical assignments. The application, as we use it,
enumerates all the structure value contained with the machines' BIOS. In
my use I have not seen the structures 5 and 6 ever populated and in fact
always return "Inactive" when iterating through the structure values.

	Are you using this XML with version 0.11.5 of libSMBIOS? That is
the version I used to make these updates against in preparation for
their inclusion with the upcoming version 0.12.

-Tim Fettig



-----Original Message-----
From: libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com
[mailto:libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of Adrian
Freemantle
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:04 AM
To: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: SMBIOS23.XML file Update

Hi,

I am experiencing a problem with the XML libraries on my development
system. When I attempt to retrieve the memory controller and memory
module information using the dumpSmbios_IPS application, I receive an
error message stating "could not find element". I have attached the xml
file that I use to this email.

Regards,
Adrian Freemantle