On February 12th, 2015, the DMTF released version 3.0.0 of the System Management BIOS Reference Specification. This update isn't just adding enumerated values to existing structures, as previous updates did. It is also introducing a new entry point format which allows for larger tables and structures. Support for this needs to be added to dmidecode.
Additionally, reading the entry point and the table from /dev/mem is no longer possible on all systems, so some work is in progress to offer an alternative interface through sysfs. It would be great to finalize this and release a new version of dmidecode that would support both SMBIOS version 3.0 and this new kernel interface.
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almost 9 years ago by jdelvare | Reply
A kernel fix was merged upstream:<br> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c1ac56b51b9d222ab202dec1ac2f4215346129d
The remaining 8 kernel patches are queued for kernel v4.2:<br> http://jdelvare.nerim.net/devel/linux/jdelvare-dmi/
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