Mssing a manpage entry for kernel option device smbios which is explained to be a DMI/SMBIOS entry point in amd64/NOTES. No further informations available, not known whether this option is prerequisite for any readings of the DMI by userland software.
> which is explained to be a DMI/SMBIOS entry point in amd64/NOTES. No > further information available, not known whether this option is a > prerequisite for any readings of the DMI by userland software. In short, no. Many SMBIOS applications like dmidecode poke directly at /dev/mem . Thanks. -Garrett
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A manpage for smbios(4) was submitted in PR240252 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240252
This PR can be closed. A Manpage was committed to -CURRENT by r359633 and r359656.
Per most recent comment, "a manpage was committed to -CURRENT by r359633 and r359656."
A commit references this bug: Author: gbe Date: Sun Jun 28 14:36:57 UTC 2020 New revision: 362724 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362724 Log: MFC r359633, r359656, r360190: Add a manpage for smbios(4). PR: 240252, 163830 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23714 Changes: _U stable/12/ stable/12/share/man/man4/Makefile stable/12/share/man/man4/smbios.4