Dell Video BIOS Information (Type 216)

Source: reverse engineered from the dumps of the data corpus.

Tells the vendor and the version of the video BIOS, e.g. "Intel Corp." and "2089" in dell/g15-5510.bin, or ATI and RADEON 7000 V6.11 in dell/poweredge-1800.bin.

Table 1. Dell Video BIOS Information structure
Offset Version Name Length Value Description

0x00

2.0+

Type

BYTE

216

Dell Video BIOS Information indicator

0x01

2.0+

Length

BYTE

Varies

Length of the structure

0x02

2.0+

Handle

WORD

Varies

0x04

2.0+

Vendor

BYTE

STRING

Vendor of the video BIOS, which may be quoted

0x05

2.0+

Version

BYTE

STRING

Version of the video BIOS, which may be quoted

0x06

2.0+

Unknown 1

BYTE

Varies

1, or 0 on the PowerEdge servers of the 13th and 14th generations, in the known data

0x07

2.0+

Unknown 2

WORD

Varies

0, 0x0088, 0x0110 or 0x03F0 in the known data