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diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 9ca2d82..a64cf5d 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ and developed by the \s-1DMTF\s0 (Desktop Management Task Force). As you run it, .B dmidecode -will try to locate the \s-1DMI\s0 table. If it succeeds, it will then parse -this table and display a list of records like this one: +will try to locate the \s-1DMI\s0 table. It will first try to read the DMI table +from sysfs, and next try reading directly from memory if sysfs access failed. +If +.B dmidecode +succeeds in locating a valid DMI table, it will then parse this table +and display a list of records like this one: Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes. Base Board Information @@ -89,6 +93,13 @@ keywords is printed and .B dmidecode exits with an error. This option cannot be used more than once. + +Note: on Linux, most of these strings can alternatively be read directly +from +.BR sysfs , +typically from files under +.IR /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id . +Most of these files are even readable by regular users. .TP .BR "-t" ", " "--type TYPE" Only display the entries of type \fBTYPE\fR. \fBTYPE\fR can be either a @@ -119,6 +130,10 @@ later. Read the DMI data from a binary file previously generated using \fB--dump-bin\fR. .TP +.BR " " " " "--no-sysfs" +Do not attempt to read DMI data from sysfs files. This is mainly useful for +debugging. +.TP .BR "-h" ", " "--help" Display usage information and exit .TP @@ -234,6 +249,8 @@ The DMI table is located at offset 0x20. .SH FILES .I /dev/mem +.I /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/smbios_entry_point (Linux only) +.I /sys/firmware/dmi/tables/DMI (Linux only) .SH BUGS More often than not, information contained in the \s-1DMI\s0 tables is inaccurate, incomplete or simply wrong. |