[syslinux] PXELinux and serial number

[H. Peter Anvin]

Scott Mewett wrote:
> What is UUID as it relates to syslinux. A google search didn't produce
> any hits that seemed to apply.

The Plug&Play BIOS spec is supposed to have a GUID/UUID for each system, 
and this is made available to the PXE stack.

Overall, if someone can point me to a spec on how to find the DMI serial 
number, asset tag, or whatever it is they need, it's probably not that 
hard to implement, assuming it doesn't require parsing acres of tables, 
like ACPI tends to make you do.

	-hpa