wok-6.x diff dmidecode/description.txt @ rev 24731
updated libdvdread and libdvdread-dev (6.0.2 -> 6.1.2)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Tue Mar 15 17:30:53 2022 +0100 (2022-03-15) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/dmidecode/description.txt Tue Mar 15 17:30:53 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ 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.