When passing "bios" to a command line option, it means the platform firmware, regardless of it technically implementing the BIOS standard.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de> --- man/dmidecode.8 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- dmidecode.orig/man/dmidecode.8 +++ dmidecode/man/dmidecode.8 @@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ Only display the value of the \s-1DMI\s0 .BR processor\-version , .BR processor\-frequency . .hy +In this context, for historical reasons, "bios" designates the platform +firmware (regardless of it technically implementing the BIOS standard), +while "firmware" designates the embedded controller firmware, if applicable. Each keyword corresponds to a given \s-1DMI\s0 type and a given offset within this entry type. Not all strings may be meaningful or even defined on all systems. Some @@ -149,6 +152,8 @@ Only display the entries of type \fITYPE .BR slot . .hy Refer to the DMI TYPES section below for details. +In this context, for historical reasons, "bios" designates the platform +firmware, regardless of it technically implementing the BIOS standard. If this option is used more than once, the set of displayed entries will be the union of all the given types. If \fITYPE\fP is not provided or not valid, a list of all valid keywords -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
