Hello Joao, or anyone else affected,

Accepted dmidecode into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmidecode/3.3-3ubuntu0.2 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Jammy)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-jammy

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2081611

Title:
  Add processor support from SMBIOS 3.6.0 in Jammy and Noble

Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in dmidecode source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in dmidecode source package in Noble:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Add processor support from SMBIOS 3.6.0 in Jammy and Noble
     to enable new hardware in LTS release per SRU policy [1].

   * Backport of 1 relatively simple patch from dmidecode 3.6
     in Oracular to dmidecode 3.3 in Jammy and dmidecode 3.5 in Noble

  [Test Plan]

   * Check no regressions on current systems with SMBIOS < 3.6,
     i.e., no output changes in text and binary form.

      $ sudo dmidecode > old.txt 2>&1
      $ sudo dmidecode --dump-bin old.bin

      $ apt install dmidecode # modified package

      $ sudo dmidecode > new.txt 2>&1
      $ sudo dmidecode --dump-bin new.bin

      $ cmp old.txt new.txt; echo $?
      0

      $ cmp old.bin new.bin; echo $?
      0

   * Check for expected output on new systems with SMBIOS >= 3.6.

     $ diff old.txt new.txt

     1) Run "sudo dmidecode -t4"
     2) Observe that the "Thread Enabled" field is being reported

  [1] https://canonical-sru-docs.readthedocs-
  hosted.com/en/latest/reference/requirements/#other-safe-cases

  [Where problems could occur]

   * The patch adds support for new bits/codes/strings,
     so there are no changes expected for the old spec support.

   * The new field (Thread Enabled) is added in a specific condition
     and should not impact systems without support to it.

   * If the current dmidecode is being used on systems that support
     the new bits, users will see a different output, and this might 
     break some text parsers if they are strictly programmed. Using the
     binary output is recommended in these cases.

  [Patch Details]

  
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=ac65cf23af7cccecb4175d3c13460928e8e2f51d

  Commit ac65cf23af7cccecb4175d3c13460928e8e2f51d
  Author: Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de>
  Date:   Fri May 26 17:41:51 2023 +0200

      dmidecode: Add processor support from SMBIOS 3.6.0

      SMBIOS 3.6.0 adds the following to the Processor Information
      structure (type 4):
      * 9 socket types
      * 1 processor family
      * 1 field (Thread Enabled)

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