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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:06:06PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:

> > The point is just that the Linux kernel has no idea about these BIOS
> > fantasies.
> 
> Can't you look inside BIOS memory, etc.?
> Even call interrupts to query this stuff?

Of course. And the details differ from BIOS to BIOS.