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authorDavid Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>2013-07-08 20:10:21 +0200
committerDavid Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>2013-07-08 20:11:16 +0200
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New upstream release v3.12.1v3.12.1
This includes a rebase against upstream dmidecode v2.12 and an update against the SMBIOS reference specification v2.8.0. Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH DMIDECODE 8 "October 2008" "dmidecode"
+.TH DMIDECODE 8 "March 2012" "dmidecode"
.SH NAME
dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -127,6 +127,13 @@ Display the version and exit
.P
Options --string, --type, --dump and --dump-bin
determine the output format and are mutually exclusive.
+.P
+Please note in case of
+.B dmidecode
+is run on a system with BIOS that boasts new SMBIOS specification, which
+is not supported by the tool yet, it will print out relevant message in
+addition to requested data on the very top of the output. Thus informs the
+output data is not reliable.
.SH "DMI TYPES"
The \s-1SMBIOS\s0 specification defines the following \s-1DMI\s0 types:
@@ -138,7 +145,7 @@ r l.
Type Information
0 BIOS
1 System
-2 Base Board
+2 Baseboard
3 Chassis
4 Processor
5 Memory Controller
@@ -176,6 +183,9 @@ Type Information
37 Memory Channel
38 IPMI Device
39 Power Supply
+40 Additional Information
+41 Onboard Devices Extended Information
+42 Management Controller Host Interface
.TE
Additionally, type 126 is used for disabled entries and type 127 is an