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authorkhali <khali>2008-02-16 18:12:35 +0000
committerkhali <khali>2008-02-16 18:12:35 +0000
commit8a1d29dcc8b4dff78b2d5d177f95e65350e69458 (patch)
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New option --dump-bin, dump the DMI data to a sparse binary file.
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@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ you. The strings attached to each entry are displayed as both
hexadecimal and \s-1ASCII\s0. This option is mainly useful for debugging.
Mutually exclusive with \fB--quiet\fR and \fB--string\fR.
.TP
+.BR " " " " "--dump-bin FILE"
+Do not decode the entries, instead dump the DMI data to a sparse file
+in binary form. This is only supported when the DMI data lives in the
+first MB of memory, and only if the system doesn't use EFI to locate
+the DMI table. The generated file is suitable to pass to \fB--dev-mem\fR
+later. Mutually exclusive with \fB--type\fR and \fB--string\fR.
+.TP
.BR "-h" ", " "--help"
Display usage information and exit
.TP