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biosdecode - BIOS
information decoder
biosdecode [OPTIONS]
biosdecode parses the BIOS
memory and prints information about
all structures (or entry points) it knows of. Currently known entry point
types are:
Use dmidecode for a more detailed output.
Use dmidecode for a more detailed output.
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See ownership for a Compaq ownership tag retrieval tool.
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Use vpddecode for a more detailed output.
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biosdecode started its life as
a part of dmidecode but as more entry point types were added, if was moved
to a different program.
- -d, --dev-mem FILE
- Read memory from device FILE
(default: /dev/mem)
- -h, --help
- Display usage information and exit
- -V, --version
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Display the version and exit
/dev/mem
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).
Alan
Cox, Jean Delvare
dmidecode(8)
, mem(4)
, ownership(8)
, vpddecode(8)
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