Request for support for Debian 8 and other older Linux distributions in smbios-lib

[Mota-Link]

I would like to request support for Debian 8 (Jessie) and other older Linux distributions in the smbios-lib library. Currently, the smbioslib::table_load_from_device() function is unable to locate the /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/smbios_entry_point path on these systems, which causes issues when trying to retrieve SMBIOS information.

[jczuluag]

I would like to request support for Debian 8 (Jessie) and other older Linux distributions in the smbios-lib library. Currently, the smbioslib::table_load_from_device() function is unable to locate the /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/smbios_entry_point path on these systems, which causes issues when trying to retrieve SMBIOS information.

@Mota-Link thanks for the interest. I took a quick look and the version of Debian you suggested and seems like it went into EOL in 2020. I tried to spawn one instance and upgrade it, but got a bunch of errors, for instance:

apt update
Ign http://archive.debian.org jessie InRelease
Ign http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Get:1 http://archive.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [44.9 kB]
Ign http://security.debian.org jessie/updates Release.gpg 
Ign http://security.debian.org jessie/updates Release     
Get:2 http://archive.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2420 B]                
Get:3 http://archive.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                                 
Ign http://archive.debian.org jessie Release                                    
Get:4 http://archive.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [992 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.debian.org jessie/main Sources [9169 kB]    
Get:6 http://archive.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [9098 kB]
Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources                 
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources              
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
Fetched 19.5 MB in 4s (3917 kB/s)
W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org jessie Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1587841717

Building the project on that platform might need to upgrade it with certain tooling that might not be available.
I'm curious how/where if you were able to build it.

[Mota-Link]

I'm building in the cloud platform.
I've also found the same problem in CentOS 6.8, and I'm guessing that it may be occurring in some older version of the Linux kernel.