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-** INTRODUCTION **
-
-Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in
-your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information
-typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS
-version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of
-interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. This will often
-include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI,
-ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial,
-parallel, USB).
-
-DMI data can be used to enable or disable specific portions of kernel code
-depending on the specific hardware. Thus, one use of dmidecode is for kernel
-developers to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source
-code when needed.
-
-Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly trusted.
-Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports what the BIOS told it
-to.
-
-
-** INSTALLATION **
-
-The home web page for dmidecode is hosted on Savannah:
-  http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/
-You will find the latest version (including CVS) there, as well as fresh news
-and other interesting material, such as a list of related projects and
-articles.
-
-This program was first written for Linux, and has since been reported to work
-on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Cygwin and Solaris as well.
-
-There's no configure script, so simply run "make" to build dmidecode, and
-"make install" to install it. You also can use "make uninstall" to remove
-all the files you installed. By default, files are installed in /usr/local
-but you can change this behavior by editing the Makefile file and setting
-prefix to wherever you want. You may change the C compiler and the
-compilation flags as well.
-
-Optionally, you can run "make strip" prior to "make install" if you want
-smaller binaries. However, be aware that this will prevent any further
-attempt to debug the programs.
-
-Two parameters can be set in the Makefile file to make dmidecode work on
-non-i386 systems. They should be used if your system uses the big endian
-byte ordering (Motorola) or doesn't support unaligned memory accesses,
-respectively. For example, compiling for a SPARC processor would require
-both (but I am not aware of SPARC-based systems implementing SMBIOS).
-Compiling for an IA64 processor requires the memory alignment workaround,
-and it is enabled automatically.
-
-
-** DOCUMENTATION **
-
-Each tool has a manual page, found in the "man" subdirectory. Manual pages
-are installed by "make install". See these manual pages for command line
-interface details and tool specific information.
-
-For an history of the changes made to dmidecode, see the CHANGELOG file.
-
-If you need help, your best chances are to visit the web page (see the
-INSTALLATION section above) or to get in touch with the developers directly.
-Have a look at the AUTHORS file and contact one of the maintainers.
-
-If you want to help with the development of dmidecode, please consider
-joining the dmidecode-devel discussion list:
-  http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
-
-
-** COMMON PROBLEMS **
-
-IA-64
-
-Non-Linux systems are not yet supported.
-
-MMAP
-
-Note that mmap() is now used by default wherever possible, since this seems
-to solve a number of problems. This default behavior can be changed in
-config.h. Just to make sure this is clear, mmap() is not used for performance
-reasons but to increase the number of systems on which dmidecode can be
-successfully run.
-
-CYGWIN
-
-Dmidecode was reported to work under Cygwin. It seems that /dev/mem doesn't
-work properly before version 1.5.10 though, so you will need to use at least
-this version.
-
-
-** MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS **
-
-Three other tools come along with dmidecode: biosdecode, ownership and
-vpddecode. These tools are only useful on systems with a BIOS, so they
-are not built on IA-64 by default.
-
-BIOSDECODE
-
-This one prints all BIOS related information it can find in /dev/mem.
-It used to be part of dmidecode itself, but as dmidecode was growing,
-we felt that the non-DMI part had to be moved to a separate tool.
-
-OWNERSHIP
-
-This tool was written on a request by Luc Van de Velde for use with Novell
-tools in his company. It retrieves the "ownership tag" that can be set on
-most Compaq computers. Since it uses the same mechanisms dmidecode and
-biosdecode use, and could be of some use for other people as well, we
-decided to make it part of the project.
-
-VPDDECODE
-
-This tool prints the contents of the "vital product data" structure as
-found in most IBM and Lenovo computers. It used to have a lookup table
-for the machine name, but it was unreliable and hard to maintain so it
-was ultimately dropped. It has a command line interface.