From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964849AbWEJIcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 04:32:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964852AbWEJIcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 04:32:10 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:15968 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964849AbWEJIcJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 04:32:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JMmTb3xSdfpV/faWX7ewppJL8kZWYMYz9jABU+JNYs1k5r3twyQ8ufxWYQT8BulbF+gNKA0dNkIDdQEeSjzaTYWnEduDtr0i72xrVJkA593mN2hh14wrBJJiLOJPtdRKCl2Oi5/3ocwf0Jrwo02R5r/hAvWUkyGAoPlQyvAXEKc= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:32:08 -0700 From: "Dan Carpenter" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: How to read BIOS information Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1147099994.2888.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <445F5228.7060006@wipro.com> <1147099994.2888.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven: > But that's the best you can do. > (well you could grovel through the acpi tables just like the kernel > does, but you really don't want to do that from userspace) Obviously that would be tricky in this case. But in general it seems like writing an acpi table parser should be doable. Couldn't you just search through /dev/mem like dmidecode does? What's the difficult part? regards, dan carpenter