software to read BIOS values

Thu Dec 2 02:30:12 UTC 2004

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 06:37 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:33, Randy Arnold wrote:
> > >>Is dmidecode what you are looking for?
> > >>    
> > >
> > >Or biosdecode?
> > >
> > >  
> >
> > /usr/sbin/dmidecode
> already mentioned.

Yup...
# rpm -qf `which dmidecode`
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.39

> 
> I'm not joking:
> BIOSDECODE(8)                                                    BIOSDECODE(8)
> 
> NAME
>        biosdecode - BIOS information decoder

So where's biosdecode come from?

# biosdecode
-bash: biosdecode: command not found
# man biosdecode
No manual entry for biosdecode

Only references I can turn up via Google are non-Fedora packages, e.g.
http://bohnsack.com/lists/archives/xcat-user/3591.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-September/msg02047.html

Phil