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diff -up dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG.manpage_update dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG
--- dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG.manpage_update 2012-03-26 12:55:08.415579519 +0200
+++ dmidecode-2.11/CHANGELOG 2012-03-26 12:56:48.657586111 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-03-26 Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
+
+ * man/dmidecode.8: Add missing DMI type introduced with SMBIOS 2.7+, and
+ include the information about the extra output when dmidecode is run
+ on a hardware that has non-supported SMBIOS version.
+
2012-03-12 Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
* dmioem.c: Add "PXE" to the HP OEM Type 209 output so it is similar to
diff -up dmidecode-2.11/man/dmidecode.8.manpage_update dmidecode-2.11/man/dmidecode.8
--- dmidecode-2.11/man/dmidecode.8.manpage_update 2012-03-26 12:53:10.185571745 +0200
+++ dmidecode-2.11/man/dmidecode.8 2012-03-26 12:34:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH DMIDECODE 8 "November 2008" "dmidecode"
+.TH DMIDECODE 8 "March 2012" "dmidecode"
.SH NAME
dmidecode \- \s-1DMI\s0 table decoder
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -127,6 +127,13 @@ Display the version and exit
.P
Options --string, --type and --dump-bin
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 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.
.SH "DMI TYPES"
The \s-1SMBIOS\s0 specification defines the following \s-1DMI\s0 types:
@@ -138,7 +145,7 @@ r l.
Type Information
0 BIOS
1 System
-2 Base Board
+2 Baseboard
3 Chassis
4 Processor
5 Memory Controller
@@ -177,7 +184,8 @@ Type Information
38 IPMI Device
39 Power Supply
40 Additional Information
-41 Onboard Device
+41 Onboard Devices Extended Information
+42 Management Controller Host Interface
.TE
Additionally, type 126 is used for disabled entries and type 127 is an
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