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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email>2023-06-19 22:42:19 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email>2023-06-19 22:42:19 +0200
commit2086c5dde19124c775a3cc1dfdd517e60661ca6a (patch)
tree6efb767a7b890d158ecf69ff7e01f4a8ba1d73bc /man/dmidecode.8
parent918cb8282368af58f874b48d71080fc7b56d181f (diff)
parent26c1512096facac3dad911e98bd73e4d88642b0c (diff)
Merge branch 'release/debian/3.5-1'debian/3.5-1
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH DMIDECODE 8 "January 2019" "dmidecode"
+.TH DMIDECODE 8 "February 2023" "dmidecode"
.\"
.SH NAME
dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ Read memory from device \fIFILE\fP (default: \fI/dev/mem\fP)
Be less verbose. Unknown, inactive and \s-1OEM\s0-specific entries are not
displayed. Meta-data and handle references are hidden.
.TP
+.BR " " " " "--no-quirks"
+Decode everything exactly as it is in the table, without trying to fix up
+common mistakes or hide irrelevant fields.
+This mode is primarily aimed at firmware developers.
+.TP
.BR "-s" ", " "--string \fIKEYWORD\fP"
Only display the value of the \s-1DMI\s0 string identified by \fIKEYWORD\fP.
It must be a keyword from the following list:
@@ -159,6 +164,7 @@ hexadecimal and \s-1ASCII\s0. This option is mainly useful for debugging.
Do not decode the entries, instead dump the DMI data to a file in binary
form. The generated file is suitable to pass to \fB--from-dump\fP
later.
+\fIFILE\fP must not exist.
.TP
.BR " " " " "--from-dump \fIFILE\fP"
Read the DMI data from a binary file previously generated using