SMBIOS 3.1 not supported by dmidecode

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5

Issue

HPE Proliant Gen10 starts to use SMBIOS 3.1.1.
But dmidecode on RHEL 7 doesn't support SMBIOS 3.0 or newer, according to the message:

# dmidecode -t 204
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 3.1 present.
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.8 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.

Resolution

Please update dmidecode to dmidecode-3.1-2.el7 released with Advisory RHBA-2018:3074 or newer.

Root Cause

Support for new SMBIOS 3.1 has been added to dmidecode-3.1-2.el7

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