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.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
.Dt BIOS 4 amd64
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bios
.Nd a driver for PC Firmware, aka BIOS
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "bios0 at mainbus0"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Ox
provides support for a limited subset of PC firmware (aka BIOS) subsystems
on this platform.
Only SMBIOS is supported.
.Pp
SMBIOS provides detail about system hardware configuration
and is used to attach
.Xr ipmi 4
on most systems.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr ipmi 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver was introduced to this platform in
.Ox 4.0 .