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dmidecode: Do not let --dump-bin overwrite an existing file

2023-02-20T13:53:31+00:00

Make sure that the file passed to option --dump-bin does not already
exist. In practice, it is rather unlikely that an honest user would
want to overwrite an existing dump file, while this possibility
could be used by a rogue user to corrupt a system file.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Reviewed-by: Jerry Hoemann

dmidecode: Add a --no-quirks option

2022-12-16T09:36:59+00:00

This new option is aimed at firmware developers to help them validate
their work. When this option is used, quirks and fixups are disabled
in dmidecode, which will dumbly decode everything found in the table
even if it is known to be incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

man pages: Improve roff formatting

2021-06-18T08:08:48+00:00

- Use italic for synopsis, options' arguments and file paths.
- Use \fP instead of \fR. It's a good practice, and makes markup more
  robust to surrounding context.
- Disable hyphenation for naturally hyphenated keywords to reduce
  reader's potential confusion.

This closes bug #60769:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?60769

dmidecode: Adding system-sku-number support to -s option

2020-07-07T12:23:13+00:00

Allow extracting the System SKU number directly via the -s option.

[JD: Update the man page accordingly.]

This fixes bug #58715:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?58715

Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs 
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

dmidecode: Adding firmware-revision support to -s option

2019-10-07T13:36:47+00:00

Most of servers like HPe, QCT, report the BMC version via the
Firmware Revision field. Add an option to the -s to export this
information directly.

A typical usage of this feature looks like:

	[root@host ~]$ dmidecode -s firmware-revision
	3.93

Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu 
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

dmidecode: Adding bios-revision to -s option

2019-10-07T13:36:47+00:00

Some hardware vendors like HPe use the Version field to store the
bios generation like (U30, U32, A40, ...).  If you want to get the
"release" version of this bios generation, the bios revision field
must be considered.

A typical output of this kind of server looks like :

          BIOS Information
                  Vendor: HPE
                  Version: A40
                  Release Date: 07/20/2019
                  [...]
                  BIOS Revision: 2.0
                  Firmware Revision: 1.45

Add a "bios-revision" entry into the '-s' option.

A typical usage of this feature looks like :

	[root@host] dmidecode -s bios-revision
	2.0

Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu 
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

Use comments to separate sections in manual pages

2019-01-29T13:11:46+00:00

Blank lines are interpreted as actual blank lines in manual pages.
Use comments instead to visually separate sections. Otherwise an
extra blank like is inserted before every section.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

dmidecode: Document how the UUID fields are interpreted

2019-01-29T13:11:42+00:00

There has always been a lot of confusion about the byte order of UUID
fields. While dmidecode is doing "the right thing", documenting it
can't hurt.

This should address bug #55510:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?55510

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

dmidecode: Reformat the FILES section of the manual page

2019-01-29T13:11:38+00:00

List one file per line and use regular font for comments. This makes
the FILES section a lot more readable.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

dmidecode: Add option to filter output based upon handle

2018-07-03T07:55:57+00:00

Add option "--handle HANDLE" to dmiopt to allow user to filter
output to only those entry that matches HANDLE.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann 
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare