From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 28 19:12:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA24866 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA24801; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA09448; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:41:43 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707290211.LAA09448@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SMBIOS/DMI etc In-Reply-To: <19970728234428.16657@mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Jul 28, 97 11:44:28 pm" To: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:41:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mo@uu.net, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Esser stands accused of saying: > > I have considered adding calls to the PCI BIOS as an > alternate mechanism to directly reading configuration > space registers. But I have no intention to make the > PCI code depend on PCI BIOS services. This is because...? > But I do not have time to debug the BIOS32 functionality, > right now, and need to know it is operational, before I > try to use it ... I think I've found enough help to sort it out; I'd be more than happy to present you with an API of your choice on a platter. > Regards, STefan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[