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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:59:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 17/17] Cygwin is no longer supported

---
 CHANGELOG | 4 ++++
 README    | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index ebae4b3..ac748b0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2016-09-22  Jean Delvare  <jdelvare@suse.de>
+
+	* README: Explain that we can no longer support Cygwin.
+
 2016-06-30  Petr Oros  <poros@redhat.com>
 
 	* dmidecode.c: Unmask LRDIMM in memory type detail (DMI type 17).
diff --git a/README b/README
index 391a5cb..f612b36 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ and other interesting material, such as a list of related projects and
 articles.
 
 This program was first written for Linux, and has since been reported to work
-on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Cygwin and Solaris as well.
+on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS and Solaris as well.
 
 There's no configure script, so simply run "make" to build dmidecode, and
 "make install" to install it. You also can use "make uninstall" to remove
@@ -83,9 +83,8 @@ successfully run.
 
 CYGWIN
 
-Dmidecode was reported to work under Cygwin. It seems that /dev/mem doesn't
-work properly before version 1.5.10 though, so you will need to use at least
-this version.
+Dmidecode used to work under Cygwin. However the /dev/mem interface was
+removed at some point in time so it no longer works.
 
 
 ** MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS **
-- 
2.7.4