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* dmidecode: Do not let --dump-bin overwrite an existing fileJean Delvare2023-02-201-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | 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 <jdelvare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
* dmidecode: Add a --no-quirks optionJean Delvare2022-12-161-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | 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 <jdelvare@suse.de>
* man pages: Improve roff formattingIvan Tkachenko2021-06-181-42/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | - 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 optionTimo Teräs2020-07-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <timo.teras@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Adding firmware-revision support to -s optionErwan Velu2019-10-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <e.velu@criteo.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Adding bios-revision to -s optionErwan Velu2019-10-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <e.velu@criteo.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* Use comments to separate sections in manual pagesJean Delvare2019-01-291-7/+11
| | | | | | | | 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 <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Document how the UUID fields are interpretedJean Delvare2019-01-291-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Reformat the FILES section of the manual pageJean Delvare2019-01-291-3/+7
| | | | | | | 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 <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Add option to filter output based upon handleJerry Hoemann2018-07-031-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Add option "--handle HANDLE" to dmiopt to allow user to filter output to only those entry that matches HANDLE. Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Add system-family direct string optionMika Westerberg2017-06-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | This allows users to print system-family using '-s' option. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: New option --oem-stringJean Delvare2017-05-231-1/+6
| | | | | | | Add a new option to extract OEM strings, like we already have for many other strings. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
* dmidecode: Add --no-sysfs option to disable use of sysfsJean Delvare2015-04-211-0/+4
| | | | | | | | This option forces any SMBIOS information in sysfs to be ignored, resulting in dmidecode using /dev/mem for SMBIOS access. This is likely most useful for debugging. Contributed by Roy Franz.
* dmidecode: Add reading of SMBIOS tables from sysfsJean Delvare2015-04-211-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add preferential reading of the SMBIOS tables from /sys/firmware/dmi/tables. If these files are not present or not valid, the previously supported methods of locating SMBIOS tables are attempted. Messages indicating which source is used for the tables have been added. These are printed before the tables have been validated so they can go at the top of the output. This also shows what methods have been tried and failed due to invalid tables. The address of the entry point is not known when read from sysfs, so it is not printed in that case. A placeholder print is added where 64-bit entry point processing will be added. Contributed by Roy Franz.
* Add a note about DMI strings available from sysfs on Linux.Jean Delvare2014-11-141-0/+7
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* man/dmidecode.8: Add missing DMI type introduced with SMBIOS 2.7+Anton Arapov2012-03-261-3/+11
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* Include entry type 41 in --type baseboard.Jean Delvare2008-11-071-2/+2
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* Update reference SMBIOS document.Jean Delvare2008-11-071-1/+3
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* Option --dump is only a modifier as --quiet is, so it's not actuallyJean Delvare2008-10-301-1/+1
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* Document the binary dump file format.Jean Delvare2008-10-261-0/+9
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* Simplify the handling and documentation of mutually exclusive outputJean Delvare2008-10-261-8/+7
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* Update the option --dump-bin, document the new option --from-dump.Jean Delvare2008-10-251-5/+7
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* New option --dump-bin, dump the DMI data to a sparse binary file.Jean Delvare2008-02-161-0/+7
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* Refresh the date.Jean Delvare2007-02-261-1/+1
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* Some OEM-specific types can be decoded now.Jean Delvare2007-02-261-3/+4
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* Update the sample entry to match the new output format.Jean Delvare2006-01-211-4/+3
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* List the four new string keywords.Jean Delvare2005-10-041-2/+5
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* Refresh the revision date.Jean Delvare2005-08-031-1/+1
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* Options --dump and --quiet are mutually exclusive.Jean Delvare2005-08-021-2/+3
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* Options --dump and --string are mutually exclusive.Jean Delvare2005-06-231-1/+2
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* Fix typo ("Controler" becomes "Controller").Jean Delvare2005-06-221-1/+1
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* Add string keyword "bios-release-date".Jean Delvare2005-06-221-1/+2
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* Document the new -s, --string option.Jean Delvare2005-06-221-0/+28
| | | | Update the -t, --type option documentation.
* Document the new -q, --quiet option.Jean Delvare2005-06-181-0/+4
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* Minor format fixes.Jean Delvare2005-06-161-4/+4
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* Document the new -t, --type option.Jean Delvare2005-06-161-1/+95
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* Document the new -u, --dump option.Jean Delvare2005-05-151-0/+6
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* Document the new command-line interface.Jean Delvare2005-02-101-1/+15
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* Use \(bu instead of \[bu] for bullets, since it seems to be more widelyJean Delvare2004-03-131-4/+4
| | | | | supported. Compute enumerated lists' width ourselves, so that it looks better.
* Manual pages, new.Jean Delvare2004-02-221-0/+67
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