From df9ebd5ffbe039550ca4f9d5075db09aa7dd2bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare 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 + + * README: Explain that we can no longer support Cygwin. + 2016-06-30 Petr Oros * 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