Method

FwupdPluginDeviceget_smbios_string

Declaration [src]

const gchar*
fu_device_get_smbios_string (
  FuDevice* self,
  guint8 type,
  guint8 length,
  guint8 offset,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Gets a hardware SMBIOS string.

The type and offset can be referenced from the DMTF SMBIOS specification: https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0134_3.1.1.pdf.

Available since:

2.0.10

Parameters

`type`	`guint8`
	A SMBIOS structure type, e.g. `FU_SMBIOS_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIOS`.
`length`	`guint8`
	Expected length of the structure, or `FU_SMBIOS_STRUCTURE_LENGTH_ANY`.
`offset`	`guint8`
	A SMBIOS offset.
`error`	`GError **`
	The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

Return value

Returns:	`const gchar*`
	A string, or `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the instance.
	The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.