wok-current view dmidecode/description.txt @ rev 25687
Up expat CVE-2024-28757
| author | Stanislas Leduc <shann@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Fri Mar 15 07:23:20 2024 +0000 (9 months ago) |
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1 Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described
2 in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
3 This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name,
4 serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details
5 of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer.
6 This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots
7 (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports
8 (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).
10 DMI data can be used to enable or disable specific portions of kernel code
11 depending on the specific hardware. Thus, one use of dmidecode is for kernel
12 developers to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source
13 code when needed.
15 Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly trusted.
16 Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports what the BIOS told
17 it to.