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author | aarapov <aarapov> | 2012-03-26 10:43:09 +0000 |
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committer | aarapov <aarapov> | 2012-03-26 10:43:09 +0000 |
commit | 0f02c48a977d0efdc3881b9bc72557f870d90bc3 (patch) | |
tree | b1331af94b6774691c6ef7be3cf0d46ea41b9b11 | |
parent | dafe75c63879ff89b049db52a46a7eddd3ad2d72 (diff) | |
download | dmidecode-0f02c48a977d0efdc3881b9bc72557f870d90bc3.tar.gz |
man/dmidecode.8: Add missing DMI type introduced with SMBIOS 2.7+
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-03-26 Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> + + * man/dmidecode.8: Add missing DMI type introduced with SMBIOS 2.7+, and + include the information about the extra output when dmidecode is run + on a hardware that has non-supported SMBIOS version. + 2012-03-12 Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> * dmioem.c: Add "PXE" to the HP OEM Type 209 output so it is similar to diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 164dffa..9ca2d82 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH DMIDECODE 8 "November 2008" "dmidecode" +.TH DMIDECODE 8 "March 2012" "dmidecode" .SH NAME dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -127,6 +127,13 @@ Display the version and exit .P Options --string, --type and --dump-bin determine the output format and are mutually exclusive. +.P +Please note in case of +.B dmidecode +is run on a system with BIOS that boasts new SMBIOS specification, which +is not supported by the tool yet, it will print out relevant message in +addition to requested data on the very top of the output. Thus informs the +output data is not reliable. .SH "DMI TYPES" The \s-1SMBIOS\s0 specification defines the following \s-1DMI\s0 types: @@ -138,7 +145,7 @@ r l. Type Information 0 BIOS 1 System -2 Base Board +2 Baseboard 3 Chassis 4 Processor 5 Memory Controller @@ -177,7 +184,8 @@ Type Information 38 IPMI Device 39 Power Supply 40 Additional Information -41 Onboard Device +41 Onboard Devices Extended Information +42 Management Controller Host Interface .TE Additionally, type 126 is used for disabled entries and type 127 is an |