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From: Oliver Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: device smbios: missing documentation, no manpage
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>Number:         163830
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       device smbios: missing documentation, no manpage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 05 11:10:08 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:  Thu Jan 05 23:39:14 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Oliver Hartmann
>Release:        FreeBSD 10.0/amd64 and FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE/amd64
>Organization:
FU Berlin
>Environment:
>Description:
Mssing a manpage entry for kernel option 

device smbios

which is explained to be a DMI/SMBIOS entry point in amd64/NOTES. No further informations available, not known whether this option is prerequisite for any readings of the DMI by userland software.
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From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To: Oliver Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/163830: device smbios: missing documentation, no manpage
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:55:48 -0800

 > which is explained to be a DMI/SMBIOS entry point in amd64/NOTES. No
 > further information available, not known whether this option is a
 > prerequisite for any readings of the DMI by userland software.
 
     In short, no. Many SMBIOS applications like dmidecode poke
 directly at /dev/mem .
 Thanks.
 -Garrett
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