wok annotate dmidecode/description.txt @ rev 24985

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author Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org>
date Tue May 10 07:46:58 2022 +0000 (24 months ago)
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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.