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posted by khali, Fri 12 Jun 2009 12:27:32 PM UTC - 0 replies
I have been maintaining dmidecode for over 6 years now. Officially, since April 2003. In practice, even earlier than that. I first established a home for the project on Savannah, with version 1.8 being released in January 2003. Then I reorganized ...
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posted by khali, Sun 23 Nov 2008 09:08:02 PM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.10 of dmidecode has just been released. It supports the version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, which includes new enumerated values for recent hardware, as well as bus address for system slots and a new entry type for on-board devices. The possibility to dump the SMBIOS table to a small binary file, and to read the SMBIOS table back from such binary files, has been added.
posted by khali, Mon 26 Feb 2007 02:23:41 PM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.9 of dmidecode has just been released. It supports the version 2.5 of the SMBIOS specification, which includes new enumerated values for recent hardware, as well as CPU core and thread count reporting. Some HP-specific entries are now decoded. The support of Intel-based Macintosh and IA-64 machines was improved.
Note that the product name lookup table that was included in vpddecode has been dropped, because it was unreliable and hard to maintain.
posted by khali, Sat 04 Feb 2006 04:47:29 PM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.8 of dmidecode has just been released. It adds a new command line interface and many BIOS IDs to vpddecode, and a few new --string options to dmidecode.
posted by khali, Fri 05 Aug 2005 11:07:57 AM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.7 of dmidecode has just been released. It adds a new command line interface to dmidecode (and to vpdddecode to a lesser extent.) For example, it is now possible to limit the output of dmidecode to a given DMI type, or to extract a single string from the DMI table. The documentation has been updated accordingly.
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posted by khali, Mon 18 Jul 2005 02:12:38 PM UTC - 0 replies
I plan to release dmidecode 2.7 by the beginning of August, in two weeks or so. I would appreciate if people good give some testing to the current CVS so as to make sure I did not introduce any regression since the previous release. The most significant improvement is the new, complete command line interface.
posted by khali, Tue 01 Mar 2005 09:26:29 AM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.6 of dmidecode has just been released. It fixes a 2 GB memory limit bug that had been (re)introduced in version 2.5. Basic command-line handling has been implemented, and documentation has been updated accordingly. BeOS and Cygwin are now supported.
posted by khali, Tue 23 Nov 2004 09:28:29 PM UTC - 0 replies
A new mailing-list named dmidecode-devel has been created. This is a subscriber-only list, intended for people interested in the past, present and future developments of dmidecode and associated tools.
posted by khali, Thu 11 Nov 2004 05:27:48 PM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.5 of dmidecode has just been released. It is mainly a maintenance release, with code cleanups, compatibility fixes and documentation updates.
posted by khali, Mon 05 Apr 2004 02:27:07 PM UTC - 0 replies
Version 2.4 of dmidecode has been released two weeks ago. This release focuses on documentation, with each tool now having a manual page. The vpddecode tool has been much improved thanks to the feedback of several users. A few fixes and minor improvements were made to the other tools as well.
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