"Support for SMBIOS 2.6.1 and 2.7 was added. This includes new enumerated values
for recent hardware, as well as support for large memory modules and arrays, and
a new entry type for management controller host interfaces. Additionally, many
minor bugs were fixed."
Patch provided by Sergey Svishchev via PR 40104.
dmidecode:
* Support for Solaris (x86 only, of course).
* Possibility to dump the SMBIOS/DMI table to a small binary file
(option --dump-bin).
* Possibility to read the SMBIOS/DMI table from such binary files
(option --from-dump).
* Support for SMBIOS 2.6. This includes new chassis types, new
processor family names, new processor family upgrade names, bus
address for system slots, and a new entry type for on-board devices,
amongst many other minor changes.
* Support for DMI entry type 31 (Boot integrity services).
* Many processor family names taken from the CIM Schema document.
vpddecode:
* No longer ask users to report broken records.
* Fix --quiet option.
And okayed by maintainer.
Many changes, see CHANGELOG for all. Here are some highlights:
* dmidecode.c: Add option -u, --dump. It disables decoding of the
entries, raw dumps are displayed instead. This option is mainly
intended for debugging.
* vpddecode.c: Add option -u, --dump. It disables decoding of the
VPD records, a raw dump is displayed instead. This option is
mainly intended for debugging.
* dmidecode.c: Add option -t, --type. It limits the output to
the given type(s) of DMI entries.
* dmiopt.c: Define keywords to be used with --type (instead of
numeric values).
* dmidecode.c, dmiopt.c, dmiopt.h: Add option -q, --quiet. It
makes the output less verbose.
* dmidecode.c, dmiopt.c, dmiopt.h: Add option -s, --string. It
prints one selected DMI string instead of the regular output.
This also installs AUTHORS, CHANGELOG, and README.
And I added "@dirrm share/doc/dmidecode" to PLIST.
patch-aa to use PKGMANDIR and also sets docdir.
Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS)
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 BIOS
revision.
