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diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 1bb4c69..8b1c79b 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ and developed by the \s-1DMTF\s0 (Desktop Management Task Force). As you run it, .B dmidecode -will try to locate the \s-1DMI\s0 table. If it succeeds, it will then parse -this table and display a list of records like this one: +will try to locate the \s-1DMI\s0 table. It will first try to read the DMI table +from sysfs, and next try reading directly from memory if sysfs access failed. +If +.B dmidecode +succeeds in locating a valid DMI table, it will then parse this table +and display a list of records like this one: Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes. Base Board Information @@ -241,6 +245,8 @@ The DMI table is located at offset 0x20. .SH FILES .I /dev/mem +.I /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/smbios_entry_point (Linux only) +.I /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/DMI (Linux only) .SH BUGS More often than not, information contained in the \s-1DMI\s0 tables is inaccurate, incomplete or simply wrong. |