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     1.4 +Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described
     1.5 +in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
     1.6 +This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name,
     1.7 +serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details
     1.8 +of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer.
     1.9 +This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots
    1.10 +(e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports
    1.11 +(e.g. serial, parallel, USB).
    1.12 +
    1.13 +DMI data can be used to enable or disable specific portions of kernel code
    1.14 +depending on the specific hardware. Thus, one use of dmidecode is for kernel
    1.15 +developers to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source
    1.16 +code when needed.
    1.17 +
    1.18 +Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly trusted.
    1.19 +Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports what the BIOS told
    1.20 +it to.