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From: "Dunlap, Randy" <randy.dunlap@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Re: Detecting SMP in user space
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:22:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005433@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005429@msgid-missing>

At least on i386, root can read the ACPI tables from
/dev/mem (as done in the pmtools [acpitools] package).


~Randy________________________
-----------------------------------------------

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:31 AM
> To: Don Dugger
> Cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
> Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Detecting SMP in user space
> 
> 
> Don Dugger <n0ano@valinux.com> writes:
> 
> |> Andreas-
> |> 
> |> On my system the boot messages are copied into `/var/log/messages'
> |> so you can always go there even if the boot log is cleared.
> 
> This is not reliable.  I need something that I can use 
> without depending
> on the kernel messages.  Is it possible to get at the ACPI 
> tables in user space?
> 
> Andreas.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-19 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-19 12:48 [Linux-ia64] Re: Detecting SMP in user space Bill Nottingham
2001-04-19 12:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-04-19 14:21 ` Don Dugger
2001-04-19 14:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-04-19 15:22 ` Dunlap, Randy [this message]
2001-04-19 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-04-19 16:33 ` Dunlap, Randy
2001-04-20 18:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-04-20 19:53 ` Dunlap, Randy
2001-04-20 20:24 ` Andreas Schwab

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