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.TH BIOSDECODE 8 "February 2007" "dmidecode"
+.\"
.SH NAME
biosdecode \- \s-1BIOS\s0 information decoder
+.\"
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B biosdecode
-.RB [ OPTIONS ]
-
+.RI [ OPTIONS ]
+.\"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B biosdecode
parses the \s-1BIOS\s0 memory and prints information about all structures (or
@@ -54,31 +56,35 @@ started its life as a part of
.B dmidecode
but as more entry point types were added, it was moved to a different
program.
-
+.\"
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.BR "-d" ", " "--dev-mem FILE"
-Read memory from device \fBFILE\fR (default: \fB/dev/mem\fR)
+.BR "-d" ", " "--dev-mem \fIFILE\fP"
+Read memory from device \fIFILE\fP (default: \fI/dev/mem\fP)
.TP
-.BR " " " " "--pir full"
-Decode the details of the PCI IRQ routing table
+.BR " " " " "--pir \fBfull\fP"
+Decode the details of the PCI IRQ routing table.
+Only \fBfull\fP mode is supported.
.TP
.BR "-h" ", " "--help"
Display usage information and exit
.TP
.BR "-V" ", " "--version"
Display the version and exit
-
+.\"
.SH FILES
.I /dev/mem
+.\"
.SH BUGS
Most of the time,
.B biosdecode
prints too much information (you don't really care about addresses)
or not enough (because it doesn't follow pointers and has no lookup
tables).
+.\"
.SH AUTHORS
Alan Cox, Jean Delvare
+.\"
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR dmidecode (8),
.BR mem (4),