Retrieve Windows key from ACPI MSDM table
Posted on Thu 19 June 2014 in Linux • 1 min read
[root@localhost ~]# hexdump -C /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
00000000 4d 53 44 4d 55 00 00 00 03 d3 4c 45 4e 4f 56 4f |MSDMU.....LENOVO|
00000010 54 50 2d 47 32 20 20 20 70 25 00 00 50 54 4c 20 |TP-G2 p%..PTL |
00000020 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |................|
00000030 00 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX |........xxxxx-xx|
00000040 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX |xxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-|
00000050 XX XX XX XX XX |xxxxx|
00000055
cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM | dd bs=1 skip=56 2>/dev/null
Ahh yes...and thanks to everyone how post a howto with screenshots with black bars - don't forget the hexdump ;)