SMBIOSWG SMBIOS Working Group

Working Group Chairs

Kimon Berlin, HP, Inc
Sai Chaganty, Intel Corporation

Working Group Description

The DMTF’s System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Working Group is responsible for the SMBIOS standard, which delivers management information via system firmware.

For OS-present, OS-absent, and pre-OS environments, SMBIOS offers motherboard and system vendors a standard format to present management information about their products. By extending the system firmware interface, SMBIOS can be used with management applications that use the DMTF’s Common Information Model (CIM) or another technology, such as SNMP. It eliminates the need for error-prone operations, such as probing system hardware for presence detection.

Get Involved

DMTF members are encouraged to contribute and access the work of the SMBIOS Working Group via its private, members-only workspace. Non-members, learn more and join the DMTF to participate.

Upcoming Workgroup Deliverables

DMTF Standard Publication Identifier	Document Title	Target Version	Target Release Date
DSP0134	SMBIOS Specification	3.5	2021H2

DMTF Specifications

DSP #	Version	Title	Date	Comments	Versions
DSP0134	3.6.0	System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Reference Specification	20 Jun 2022	Standard	View

Open Source Projects using DMTF SMBIOSWG Technologies

DMTF technologies are leveraged in numerous third-party open source projects. If you are aware of any additional projects using DMTF technologies that are not included below, please contact us so we can add them to the list.

Open Source Project	Description of Tool
Coreboot	Coreboot is an open-source firmware implementation for x86 and ARM, and includes code to generate the SMBIOS table.
dmidecode	Dmidecode (C) is a command-line utility to view the SMBIOS table. It supports multiple operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD.
EDK2	EDK2 is the standard development framework for UEFI/PI. It includes code to generate the SMBIOS table, and a table viewer (smbiosview) that can be run from the UEFI shell.
Linux	The Linux kernel contains an SMBIOS decoder and makes the SMBIOS table accessible to programs through the /sys virtual filesystem.
Python dmidecode	Dmidecode (Python) reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.