Version 2.3 of dmidecode
Release Notes: Improvements include support of x86_64 systems, support of systems with 2 GB and more memory, and a load of bugfixes and corrections. A new tool, vpddecode, is also included, which can be used to display the "vital product data" structure found in IBM computers.
Other releases
Release Notes: Support for SMBIOS 2.8.0 was added. This includes new enumerated values for recent hardware.
Release Notes: Support for SMBIOS 2.6.1 and 2.7 was added. This includes new enumerated values for recent hardware, as well as support for large memory modules and arrays, and a new entry type for management controller host interfaces. Additionally, many minor bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: SMBIOS 2.6 support was added. This 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 ability to dump the SMBIOS table to a small binary file, and to read the SMBIOS table back from such binary files, was added.
Release Notes: SMBIOS 2.5 support was added. This 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.
Release Notes: More strings can be extracted from the DMI table. A new command line option was added to vpddecode, making it possible to extract a single string from the VPD record. Many product names were added to vpddecode.
