Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 02:42:31 EST

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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:16:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't propose having human-readable output of DMI data in /proc, just
> > the binary data much like /proc/bus/pci has. That isn't much bloat in
> > kernel, and is a clearly defined interface, unlike reading /dev/kmem.
>
> kmem is a cleanly defined interface

For reading the memory contents, not for searching for BIOS data.
Anyway, I see this discussion doesn't lead anywhere, so I guess I'd
better just stop.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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