BIOS missing DMI information

#1

Hello,

Recently got my X4 and am looking at possibly more for a project. First thing I did was install the latest BIOS from https://docs.radxa.com/en/x/x4/bios/update-bios which seemed to be the same revision/build date as my unit shipped with.

However, digging into the system it seems the BIOS was a bit rushed and DMI information is all defaults. Is there any chance this could get fixed in a future revision? I like to deploy my nodes with Ubuntu MAAS and I can’t create targeting tags with incomplete/invalid DMI data.

# dmidecode -t 1
# dmidecode 3.5
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.6.0 present.
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 3.5.0 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Default string
	Product Name: Default string
	Version: Default string
	Serial Number: Default string
	UUID: 03000200-0400-0500-0006-000700080009
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Default string
	Family: Default string

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#2

Hello friend, DMI data can write by yourself, AMIEDIT or DMIcfg tools can do that.
We can share the tools for you, Which OS do you prefer?

#3

Hello @ryann, id appreciate that! If you have Linux versions of the tools id appreciate that, otherwise anything that is an EFI tool (like the BIOS updater) would work as well.

Thanks for the quick response. :grin:

#4

Here is the UEFI DMI flashing tool, and there is a readme inside for your reference.
https://dl.radxa.com/x/x4/radxa_x4_bios_dmi.zip

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#5

Hello @ryann, can you help with a similar problem for X2L?

#6

The tools working for X2L, just replace X4 to X2L in flashdmi.nsh
Also, you can edit other string as you want

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