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diff --git a/man/dmidecode.8 b/man/dmidecode.8 index 77c89a5..c4c292d 100644 --- a/man/dmidecode.8 +++ b/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -.TH DMIDECODE 8 "February 2023" "dmidecode" +'\" t +.\" ** The above line should force tbl to be a preprocessor ** +.TH DMIDECODE 8 "June 2025" "dmidecode" .\" .SH NAME dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder @@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder is a tool for dumping a computer's \s-1DMI\s0 (some say \s-1SMBIOS\s0) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information -such as serial numbers and \s-1BIOS\s0 revision. Thanks to this table, you can +such as serial numbers and firmware revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the presented information possibly unreliable. @@ -106,6 +108,9 @@ It must be a keyword from the following list: .BR processor\-version , .BR processor\-frequency . .hy +In this context, for historical reasons, "bios" designates the platform +firmware (regardless of it technically implementing the BIOS standard), +while "firmware" designates the embedded controller firmware, if applicable. Each keyword corresponds to a given \s-1DMI\s0 type and a given offset within this entry type. Not all strings may be meaningful or even defined on all systems. Some @@ -147,6 +152,8 @@ keyword from the following list: .BR slot . .hy Refer to the DMI TYPES section below for details. +In this context, for historical reasons, "bios" designates the platform +firmware, regardless of it technically implementing the BIOS standard. If this option is used more than once, the set of displayed entries will be the union of all the given types. If \fITYPE\fP is not provided or not valid, a list of all valid keywords @@ -201,7 +208,7 @@ determine the output format and are mutually exclusive. .P Please note in case of .B dmidecode -is run on a system with BIOS that boasts new SMBIOS specification, which +is run on a system with firmware that boasts new SMBIOS specification, which is not supported by the tool yet, it will print out relevant message in addition to requested data on the very top of the output. Thus informs the output data is not reliable. @@ -213,7 +220,7 @@ r l __ r l. Type Information -0 BIOS +0 Platform Firmware 1 System 2 Baseboard 3 Chassis @@ -226,7 +233,7 @@ Type Information 10 On Board Devices 11 OEM Strings 12 System Configuration Options -13 BIOS Language +13 Firmware Language 14 Group Associations 15 System Event Log 16 Physical Memory Array |