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author | khali <khali> | 2014-11-14 10:58:15 +0000 |
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committer | khali <khali> | 2014-11-14 10:58:15 +0000 |
commit | 47a0aa5d6696a83922ee70279b7253a4e55947d5 (patch) | |
tree | b6242a63bfc1e060cc23bcab4f444a2c97932113 | |
parent | 6d6e2504298cc0ff346eb55d10503d1795b34c56 (diff) | |
download | dmidecode-47a0aa5d6696a83922ee70279b7253a4e55947d5.tar.gz |
Add a note about DMI strings available from sysfs on Linux.
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-rw-r--r-- | man/dmidecode.8 | 7 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2014-11-14 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> + + * man/dmidecode.8: Add a note about DMI strings available from sysfs + on Linux. + 2014-10-13 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> * dmidecode.c: Add support for DDR4 (DMI type 17). Patch from Tomohiro diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 9ca2d82..1bb4c69 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ 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 |