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annotate dmidecode/description.txt @ rev 24706
updated lcms2, lcms2-apps and lcms2-dev (2.10 -> 2.13.1)
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1 Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described
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2 in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
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3 This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name,
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4 serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details
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5 of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer.
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6 This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots
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7 (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports
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8 (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).
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10 DMI data can be used to enable or disable specific portions of kernel code
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11 depending on the specific hardware. Thus, one use of dmidecode is for kernel
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12 developers to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source
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13 code when needed.
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15 Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly trusted.
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16 Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports what the BIOS told
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17 it to.
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