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Drop TABLE_LITTLEENDIAN.
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Update manual pages information.
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jdelvare committed Apr 11, 2004
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Expand Up @@ -32,19 +32,19 @@ Optionally, you can run "make strip" prior to "make install" if you want
smaller binaries. However, know that this will prevent any further
attempt to debug programs.

Three parameters can be set in the Makefile file to make dmidecode work on
non-i386 systems. The first two (BIGENDIAN and ALIGNMENT_WORKAROUND) should
be used if your system uses the big endian byte ordering (Motorola) or
doesn't support unaligned memory accesses, respectively. For example,
compiling for a SPARC processor would require both. The third parameter
(TABLE_LITTLEENDIAN) is there for debugging purposes only and shouldn't be
set by users.
Two parameters can be set in the Makefile file to make dmidecode work on
non-i386 systems. They should be used if your system uses the big endian
byte ordering (Motorola) or doesn't support unaligned memory accesses,
respectively. For example, compiling for a SPARC processor would require
both. Note that this hasn't been much tested though, because the data
manipulated by dmidecode and the other tools is only found on i386 and
similar processors anyway.


** DOCUMENTATION **

There's no man page nor info page at this time. I don't know if there ever
will be one. I don't really feel a need for it.
Each tool has a manual page, found in the man/ subdirectory. Manual pages
are installed by "make install".

This program was first written for Linux, and has since be reported to work
on FreeBSD as well.
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