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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] Reading EISA conf. from *BSD?
Date: 11 Feb 1994 20:28:28 +0100
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arg@first.gmd.de (Arnulf Guenther) writes:
>I wonder if it's possible to read (and maybe write) EISA configuration
>information from *BSD---like the cf utility under dos.
Well, maybe Terry would jump in here...
From what he's always claiming, the only standardized interface for the
EISA configuration is the BIOS-level interface. The CMOS RAM configuration
is not. So this would only be possible once there's a support for calling
the ROM-BIOS from within BSD.
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