Adding man pages from upstream. Sooner or later, these will be removed, as will

all other work that's simply replicating the demidecode binary.  All this
package should provide is the python module, and some py-module-specific man
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+.TH BIOSDECODE 8 "February 2007" "dmidecode"
+.SH NAME
+biosdecode \- \s-1BIOS\s0 information decoder
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B biosdecode
+.RB [ OPTIONS ]
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B biosdecode
+parses the \s-1BIOS\s0 memory and prints information about all structures (or
+entry points) it knows of. Currently known entry point types are:
+.IP \(bu "\w'\(bu'u+1n"
+\s-1SMBIOS\s0 (System Management \s-1BIOS\s0)
+.br
+Use
+.B dmidecode
+for a more detailed output.
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1DMI\s0 (Desktop Management Interface, a legacy version of \s-1SMBIOS\s0)
+.br
+Use
+.B dmidecode
+for a more detailed output.
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1SYSID\s0
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1PNP\s0 (Plug and Play)
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1ACPI\s0 (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1BIOS32\s0 (\s-1BIOS32\s0 Service Directory)
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1PIR\s0 (\s-1PCI\s0 \s-1IRQ\s0 Routing)
+.IP \(bu
+\s-132OS\s0 (\s-1BIOS32\s0 Extension, Compaq-specific)
+.br
+See
+.B ownership
+for a Compaq ownership tag retrieval tool.
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1SNY\s0 (Sony-specific, not decoded)
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1VPD\s0 (Vital Product Data, IBM-specific)
+.br
+Use
+.B vpddecode
+for a more detailed output.
+.IP \(bu
+\s-1FJKEYINF\s0 (Application Panel, Fujitsu-specific)
+
+.PP
+.B biosdecode
+started its life as a part of
+.B dmidecode
+but as more entry point types were added, if was moved to a different
+program.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR "-d" ", " "--dev-mem FILE"
+Read memory from device \fBFILE\fR (default: \fB/dev/mem\fR)
+.TP
+.BR "-h" ", " "--help"
+Display usage information and exit
+.TP
+.BR "-V" ", " "--version"
+Display the version and exit
+
+.SH FILES
+.I /dev/mem
+.SH BUGS
+Most of the time,
+.B biosdecode
+prints too much information (you don't really care about addresses)
+or not enough (because it doesn't follow pointers and has no lookup
+tables).
+.SH AUTHORS
+Alan Cox, Jean Delvare
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR dmidecode (8),
+.BR mem (4),
+.BR ownership (8),
+.BR vpddecode (8)