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[Andre Tomt <1578022@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following two upstream patches is needed to fix this (on my system):

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

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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:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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.

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