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Bug 1368489 - dmidecode 2.12 does not support SMBIOS 3.0
Summary: dmidecode 2.12 does not support SMBIOS 3.0
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dmidecode
Version: 7.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Petr Oros
QA Contact: Mike Gahagan
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-08-19 14:38 UTC by Mick Brennan
Modified: 2019-02-15 03:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-26 19:50:15 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1232558 0 medium CLOSED Add SMBIOS 3.0.0 support to dmidecode 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1325136 0 unspecified CLOSED dmidecode-3.0 is available 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 1232558 1325136

Description Mick Brennan 2016-08-19 14:38:32 UTC
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

Comment 2 Mike Gahagan 2016-08-22 15:41:17 UTC
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.

Comment 3 Mick Brennan 2016-08-22 16:12:29 UTC
I will check version 3.0-2.el7.

thanks.

Comment 4 Mick Brennan 2016-08-26 11:15:41 UTC
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?

Comment 5 Mike Gahagan 2016-08-26 19:50:15 UTC
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.


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