Add note about dmidecode on non-PC architectures (thanks Matt Booth).
authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:46:25 +0000 (14:46 +0000)
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:46:25 +0000 (14:46 +0000)
virt-what.in

index 870c09b..e0fdf5b 100644 (file)
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ fi
 cpuid=`virt-what-cpuid-helper`
 
 # Check for various products in the BIOS information.
+# Note that dmidecode doesn't exist on non-PC architectures.  On these,
+# this will return an error which is ignored (error message redirected
+# into $dmi variable).
 
 dmi=`LANG=C dmidecode 2>&1`