wok annotate dmidecode/description.txt @ rev 24489
updated dmidecode (3.2 -> 3.3)
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Fri Feb 18 17:31:24 2022 +0100 (2022-02-18) |
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| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 1 Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 2 in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 3 This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 4 serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 5 of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 6 This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 7 (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 8 (e.g. serial, parallel, USB). |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 9 |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 10 DMI data can be used to enable or disable specific portions of kernel code |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 11 depending on the specific hardware. Thus, one use of dmidecode is for kernel |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 12 developers to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 13 code when needed. |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 14 |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 15 Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly trusted. |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 16 Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports what the BIOS told |
| Hans-G?nter@24489 | 17 it to. |