Understood.  Thanks for investigating the possibility.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Colin Ian King
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> @Jeff, the backport to the much older 2.x version of smbios is just too
> intrusive and risky for me to deem this worthwhile; this is more like
> adding a feature to the older version 2 of the code, which is outside of
> the remit of a SRU, so for Trusty, I'm not going to SRU this.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578022
>
> Title:
>   dmidecode fails to output smibios 3.0 info
>
> Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in dmidecode source package in Xenial:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in dmidecode source package in Yakkety:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   [SRU JUSTIFICATION][XENIAL]
>
>   Ubuntu 16.04, dmidecode 3.0-2 can display smibios 2.8 but not smibios
>   3.0. Rhel 7.2 can display smibios 3.0 on the same system without a
>   problem.
>
>   [FIX]
>   Let read_file return the actual data size
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=de9a74e1c60210bee229fcf55b1678a99d1b44dd
>
>   dmidecode: Use read_file() to read the DMI table from sysfs
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=364055211b1956539c6a6268e111e244e1292c8c
>
>   There's also a couple other SMBIOS 3.0 related fixes that is listed as
>   recomended for 3.0 on http://dmidecode.nongnu.org/
>
>   Fix 'No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found' on SMBIOS3
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=bf7bad24ce141dab5b5acc3ffb98ce5fe4a8e0f9
>
>   Use DWORD for Structure table maximum size in SMBIOS3
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=ab02b117511230e46bbef7febbd854b9c832c13c
>
>   Without the fix, dmidecode fails to display SMBIOS 3.0 tables. With
>   the fix the headers can be decoded correctly.
>
>   [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
>   Could break existing dmi table decoding.  However, this has been tested on pre 3.0 and 3.0 SMBIOS tables, so the risk seems minimal as it works on a range of DMI table versions.
>
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