SurePOS 500 4846-XX5 Technical Reference

3.13 Vital Product Data

Vital Product Data (VPD) is the IBM-specific information about a system. The data includes values such as machine type, model, serial number, BIOS/Flash revision, system board unique ID, etc. VPD is accessed through SMBIOS, as defined in the SMBIOS specification.

3.13.1 VPD Layout in SMBIOS

This section describes the traditional VPD. Refer to the SMBIOS specification for methods of accessing these fields.

Data field

SMBIOS record Type and Field

Data type

Field length

 

Type 0 “BIOS Version”

ASCII

7

BIOS level

string

 

 

 

Example: X6KT100

 

 

 

Type 1 “Product name” and “Version”

ASCII

7

Machine

string

 

 

type/model

 

 

 

Example: 4846545

 

 

 

The machine type/model does not have dashes or spaces in SMBIOS

 

System serial

Type 1 “Serial Number”

ASCII

7

number

string

 

 

Product Family

Type 1 “Family”, Type 11

ASCII

11

string

 

 

 

 

Type 1 “UUID”, offset 0Ah

hex

6

 

 

LAN MAC

 

 

 

Usage: The LAN MAC address can be parsed from the Type 01 “UUID” field, offset 10 (0Ah).

Address

For example, if the UUID is 40 3E 4C 58 76 7B DA 11 A4 29 00 14 5E 14 00 15, the MAC

 

address is 00 14 5E 14 00 15.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.13.2 SMBIOS Type 11 Structure Layout

The format of the SMBIOS Type 11 Structure for OEM strings is as follows:

Offset

Name

Length

Value

Description

00h

Type

1 byte

0Bh

OEM strings structure indicator

01h

Length

1 byte

05h

Length of structure

02h

Handle

2 bytes

varies

 

04h

Count

1 byte

varies

Number of strings in this structure

05h

Product Family

11 bytes

ASCII

“SurePOS 500”

String

string

 

 

 

3.13.3 VPD using Int 15h

;Get pointer to VPD block

mov ax, 0d207h

int 15h

;ES:DI now points to the following structure:

vpdDataStruc

STRUC

 

 

 

header

 

DW

55aah

vpdSignature

DB

'VPD'

vpdLength

DB

48

 

reserved

DB

7

dup(20h)

buildID

DB

9

dup(20h)

boxSerial

DB

7

dup(20h)

uniqueID

DB

11

dup(20H)

machineType

DB

7

dup(20h)

vpdChecksum

DB

?

 

vpdDataStruc

ENDS

 

 

 

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IBM 500 manual Vital Product Data, VPD Layout in Smbios, Smbios Type 11 Structure Layout, VPD using Int 15h

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