From 84c454bb48f2447edb154d60b5d7d03e72484f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:28:14 +0000
Subject: Document the binary dump file format.

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 man/dmidecode.8 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man')

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
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