dmidecode on newer BL460cG6 systems reports warning about SMBIOS version in RHEL 5

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Issue

  • HP has introduced a later SMBIOS in current firmware for the BL460cG6 (and probably other types), which is causing dmidecode to issue a warning, with a knock-on effect on our existing build automation. We’ll be updating the local automation to work around the extra warning text, but it would help to know when we’ll be able to offer the updated dmidecode 2.11 to fully support the new SMBIOS.

    # dmidecode 
    SMBIOS 2.7 present.
    # SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.6 are not # fully supported by this version of dmidecode.
    119 structures occupying 3783 bytes.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • dmidecode package prior to dmidecode-2.11-1.el5
  • HP BL460cG6 or other platform with SMBIOS > 2.6

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