smbios(4)

smbios4

System management bios

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device smbios

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

smbios_load="YES"

Overview

The System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) describes hardware components.

Releases

18 releases since FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 12.2
  2. 12.3
  3. 12.4
  4. 13.0–13.2
  5. 13.3–16.0

History

The smbios device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.8.

Authors

The smbios device driver was written by Matthew N. Dodd ⟨[email protected]⟩. This manual page was written by Gordon Bergling ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.