Add a machine-readable output to dmidecode
a project by jdelvare
Updated 12 months ago. 2 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Description

There have been repeated requests for a machine-friendly dmidecode output over the last decade. During Hack Week 19, 5 years ago, I prepared the code to support alternative output formats, but didn't have the time to go further. Last year, Jiri Hnidek from Red Hat Linux posted a proof-of-concept implementation to add JSON output support. This is a fairly large pull request which needs to be carefully reviewed and tested.

Goals

Review Jiri's work and provide constructive feedback. Merge the code if acceptable. Evaluate the costs and benefits of using a library such as json-c.

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dmidecode c json

This project is part of:

Hack Week 24

Activity

  • 12 months ago: michals liked this project.
  • 12 months ago: HvdHeuvel liked this project.
  • 12 months ago: jdelvare added keyword "json" to this project.
  • 12 months ago: jdelvare started this project.
  • 12 months ago: jdelvare added keyword "dmidecode" to this project.
  • 12 months ago: jdelvare added keyword "c" to this project.
  • 12 months ago: jdelvare originated this project.


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