Hi,
It appears that dmidecode can be called on systems that do not contain
DMI tables. For instance the python-dmidecode module, often used to get
system information, includes dmidecode sources, verbatim.
Programs that collect system information using python-dmidecode work
fine on x86 compatible systems, but on machines such as SPARC, it simply
makes cPython seg-fault when accessing non-existent DMI tables via mmap().
I'm only concerned with the SPARC case (no other arch has shout as of
yet) and I've got a patch for an older version of dmidecode that
prevents from accessing DMI tables on the SPARC architecture. It's
basically a bunch of conditional compilation around accessing DMI tables.
If you find that using #if...#else at the right places an acceptable
guard-rail, I'll then submit to this list a patch for the master branch.
When the patch will be in, other architectures/systems that don't
support DMI tables (ARM?, MIPS?...) could be easily added.
Thanks
Eric
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