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Description of problem: SMBIOS 3.0 is not currently supported by dmidecode 2.12 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dmidecode-2.12-9.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: Easy Steps to Reproduce: 1. On a server with SMBIOS 3.0, run the following: dmidecode | head -4 Actual results: dmidecode | head -4 # dmidecode 2.12-dmifs SMBIOS 3.0 present. # SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.8 are not # fully supported by this version of dmidecode. Expected results: dmidecode | head -4 # dmidecode 2.12-dmifs SMBIOS 3.0 present. 85 structures occupying 4356 bytes. Table at 0x789F8000. Additional info: Related bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232558
The dmidecode released with 7.2 had partial SMBIOS 3 support, I think some of the needed kernel bits were missing for SMBIOS 3 to be fully supported on all platforms. RHEL 7.3 contains an updated dmidecode and necessary kernel updates for full SMBIOS 3 support. Please try one of the recent 7.3 releases, anything more recent than mid-July should be sufficient. All you should need is the updated dmidecode and possibly the kernel. The latest dmidecode package for 7.3 is 3.0-2.el7. If you are seeing issues with that dmidecode package, please let us know what hardware you are seeing it on.
I will check version 3.0-2.el7. thanks.
dmeidecode-3.0-2.el7 does fix this. it supports SMBIOS 3.0 Do you know if this will be fixed in RH 6.8?
dmidecode-2.12-7.el6 is the package currently in 6.8. It has some support for SMBIOS 3 similar to the version in RHEL 7.2. RHEL 6 is getting close to entering maintainence mode so feature requests are very limited. If IBM needs dmidecode 3.0 in 6.9 the feature request should be opened ASAP.