Re: Reading BIOS

["K. Anantha Kiran" <ananth@cse.iitk.ac.in>]

Can anybody give references to interpret the output of *lspci* command

Thanks In Advance
K.Ananth

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-25 14:04:32 +0530, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P <jbhaskar@hclinsys.com>
>wrote in message <1101371672.3795.36.camel@myLinux>:
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>>Hi,
>>Is it possible to probe for, say, ide controllers from the BIOS, CMOS
>>information with a C program? Is there any documentation available
>>regarding the same??
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>Well, you don't really want to fiddle with physical addresses from
>within userspace programs while running a protected-mode operating
>system:-)
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>If you only want to know the type of IDE controller, and if your
>hardware wasn't build during stone age, it's probably as simple as
>reading the IDE controller's PCI device IDs. There's a libpci available
>for Linux which helps you doing this (because there are different access
>methods for accessing the PCI busses).
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>'lspci' for example uses it, probably parsing lspci's output is just
>enough for your job...
>
>MfG, JBG
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