dmidecode/0017-Cygwin-is-no-longer-supported.patch

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From df9ebd5ffbe039550ca4f9d5075db09aa7dd2bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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