Xavier AGS reboots on dmidecode

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson AGX Xavier
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Hi,

this is probably related to https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1047866/general/fatal-fault-locks-up-the-xavier-soc/ . I experience instant shutdown (and reboot) after issuing sudo dmidecode. Without sudo dmidecode can’t work but at least gives an error message about that:

dmidecode 3.1

Scanning /dev/mem for entry point.
/dev/mem: Permission denied

Here follows what happens:
Console1:
nvidia@100days-xavier:~$ sudo dmidecode
[sudo] password for nvidia:

Console2:
andrey@pooh:~$ ping 192.168.1.90
PING 192.168.1.90 (192.168.1.90) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.101.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
…
…
From 10.101.1.1 icmp_seq=106 Destination Host Unreachable
64 bytes from 192.168.1.90: icmp_seq=109 ttl=63 time=57.2 ms

nvidia@100days-xavier:~$ uptime
08:22:15 up 6 min, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.27, 0.15

nvidia@100days-xavier:~$ uname -a
Linux 100days-xavier 4.9.108-tegra-leopard #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 5 21:23:51 PST 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Cheers,
Andrey

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This tools should not support on ARM system due to there’s no BIOS on ARM’s arch.