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26.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
27.Dt BIOS 4 amd64
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm bios
31.Nd a driver for PC Firmware, aka BIOS
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "bios0 at mainbus0"
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35.Ox
36provides support for a limited subset of PC firmware (aka BIOS) subsystems
37on this platform.
38Only SMBIOS is supported.
39.Pp
40SMBIOS provides detail about system hardware configuration
41and is used to attach
42.Xr ipmi 4
43on most systems.
44.Sh SEE ALSO
45.Xr intro 4 ,
46.Xr ipmi 4
47.Sh HISTORY
48The
49.Nm
50driver was introduced to this platform in
51.Ox 4.0 .
52