Fetching Bios Attributes on BMC side.

[Bills, Jason M]

On 11/24/2024 11:59 PM, Jack wrote:
> I'm working on remote BIOS setup support for *intel based platform*.
> In my case the |BaseBIOSTable| attribute is empty which |pldmd| is 
> responsible for populating this attribute.
> I taken property of BaseBIOSTable from busctl utility where it show 
> *"a{s(sbsssvva(sv))} 0"*.
> The *0* at the end of the output likely indicates the number of elements 
> in the array (a),
> meaning that the array is currently empty or doesn't contain any entries.
> So what should i do if i want to take Bios attributes at BMC side & also 
> i did'y find any .json or xml file in BMC side?
> ||

It looks like the README in bios-settings-mgr was recently updated with 
better instructions on initializing the BaseBIOSTable: 
https://github.com/openbmc/bios-settings-mgr/blob/master/README.md#initialization-of-basebiostable

Does the PLDM info there help at all?