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| author | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2008-10-26 09:28:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2008-10-26 09:28:14 +0000 |
| commit | 84c454bb48f2447edb154d60b5d7d03e72484f22 (patch) | |
| tree | 6889a445cd671f491ab5ac164843c182465cd6c5 /man | |
| parent | 06d4ef0cd74b23b69fea5e17295e90f11a38f333 (diff) | |
| download | dmidecode-git-84c454bb48f2447edb154d60b5d7d03e72484f22.tar.gz | |
Document the binary dump file format.
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diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 8e068da..1e8fed8 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -213,6 +213,15 @@ dmidecode --type bios .IP \(bu dmidecode --type BIOS +.SH BINARY DUMP FILE FORMAT +The binary dump files generated by --dump-bin and read using --from-dump +are formatted as follows: +.IP \(bu "\w'\(bu'u+1n" +The SMBIOS or DMI entry point is located at offset 0x00. +It is crafted to hard-code the table address at offset 0x20. +.IP \(bu "\w'\(bu'u+1n" +The DMI table is located at offset 0x20. + .SH FILES .I /dev/mem .SH BUGS |