biosdecode
BIOS information decoder
see also :
dmidecode - ownership - vpddecode
Synopsis
biosdecode
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examples
source
cp $PKG_BUILD/biosdecode
$INSTALL/usr/bin/
cp $PKG_BUILD/dmidecode $INSTALL/usr/bin/
cp $PKG_BUILD/ownership $INSTALL/usr/bin/
source
DEPS="acpidump dmidecode biosdecode lspci lsusb x86info
cpufreq-info"
DEPS="$DEPS lsscsi superiotool lsinput i2cdetect
decode-dimms"
sudo dmidecode
sudo biosdecode
sudo lspci -vv
sudo lsusb -v
sudo x86info -a -mp -s -v
sudo cpufreq-info -e
lsscsi -H -L
description
biosdecode
parses the BIOS memory and prints information
about all structures (or entry points) it knows of.
Currently known entry point types are:
•
SMBIOS (System Management
BIOS )
Use dmidecode for a more
detailed output.
•
DMI (Desktop
Management Interface, a legacy version of
SMBIOS )
Use dmidecode for a more
detailed output.
•
SYSID
•
PNP (Plug and Play)
•
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface)
•
BIOS32 ( BIOS32 Service
Directory)
•
PIR ( PCI IRQ Routing)
•
32OS ( BIOS32 Extension,
Compaq-specific)
See ownership for a
Compaq ownership tag retrieval tool.
•
SNY
(Sony-specific, not decoded)
•
VPD (Vital Product Data,
IBM-specific)
Use vpddecode for a more
detailed output.
•
FJKEYINF
(Application Panel, Fujitsu-specific)
biosdecode
started its life as a part of dmidecode but as more
entry point types were added, if was moved to a different
program.
options
-d,
--dev-mem FILE
Read memory from device
FILE (default: /dev/mem)
-h, --help
Display usage information and
exit
-V, --version
Display the version and
exit
files
/dev/mem
bugs
Most of the
time, biosdecode prints too much information (you
don’t really care about addresses) or not enough
(because it doesn’t follow pointers and has no lookup
tables).
see also
dmidecode ,
mem, ownership , vpddecode
authors
Alan Cox, Jean
Delvare