Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?

Cameron Simpson
2002-01-03T21:59:13Z

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:35:36PM +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
| > Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync
| > with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync.
| Disagree. Its reading BIOS tables not poking at kernel internals

I'll pay this one. Assuming the BIOS is always (in some guarrenteed hw
related sense) in the same place in kmem.
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