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.TH decode-dimms 1 "Oct 2013" "i2c-tools" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
decode-dimms \- decode the information found in memory module SPD EEPROMs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B decode-dimms
[-c] [-f [-b]] [-x|-X file [files..]]
.br
.B decode-dimms
-h
.SH DESCRIPTION

The purpose of the
.B decode-dimms
tool is to decode the information found in memory module SPD EEPROMs.
The SPD data is read either from the running system or dump files.
In the former case, the tool requires either the eeprom kernel module
or the at24 kernel module to be loaded.
.SH PARAMETERS
.TP
.B \-f, --format
Print nice html output
.TP
.B \-b, --bodyonly
Don't print html header (useful for postprocessing the output)
.TP
.B \--side-by-side
Display all DIMMs side-by-side if possible
.TP
.B \--merge-cells
Merge neighbour cells with identical values (side-by-side output only, default)
.TP
.B \--no-merge-cells
Don't merge neighbour cells with identical values (side-by-side output only)
.TP
.B \-c, --checksum
Decode completely even if checksum fails
.TP
.B \-x
Read data from hexdump files
.TP
.B \-X
Same as -x except treat multibyte hex data as little endian
.TP
.B \-h, --help
Display the usage summary
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR decode-vaio (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Philip Edelbrock, Christian Zuckschwerdt, Burkart Lingner, Jean Delvare