RHEL 6 dmidecode update for SMBIOS 2.8

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Issue

Recent HP BIOS releases update SMBIOS to v2.8. The dmidecode shipped with RHEL 6.5 does not fully support SMBIOS 2.8.

On a BL460...

$ dmidecode 
# dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.8 present. 
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.7 are not 
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.

dmidecode upstream has supported it for about a year (dmidecode 2.12).

Is this slated for update in 6.6?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5

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