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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2017-08-13 18:11:10 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2017-08-13 18:11:10 +0200
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parent0e7659200e3c881e354aab00b758d25408a21544 (diff)
parent3557909c0ef8542499567bef6ac64fba6f919305 (diff)
Merge branch 'release/debian/3.1-1'debian/3.1-1
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ and other interesting material, such as a list of related projects and
articles.
This program was first written for Linux, and has since been reported to work
-on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Cygwin and Solaris as well.
+on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS and Solaris as well.
There's no configure script, so simply run "make" to build dmidecode, and
"make install" to install it. You also can use "make uninstall" to remove
@@ -83,9 +83,8 @@ successfully run.
CYGWIN
-Dmidecode was reported to work under Cygwin. It seems that /dev/mem doesn't
-work properly before version 1.5.10 though, so you will need to use at least
-this version.
+Dmidecode used to work under Cygwin. However the /dev/mem interface was
+removed at some point in time so it no longer works.
** MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS **