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In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. [1] This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the computer.
The development of DMI, 2.0 version June 24, 1998, [1] marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) into desktop-management standards. [2] Before the introduction of DMI, no standardized source of information could provide details about components in a personal computer .
Version 2.1 of the UEFI specification was released on 7 January 2007. It added network authentication and the user interface architecture ('Human Interface Infrastructure' in UEFI). In October 2018, Arm announced Arm ServerReady , a compliance certification program for landing the generic off-the-shelf operating systems and hypervisors on Arm ...