Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:35:12 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bios.h question Message-ID: <20040915063512.GA10104@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <200409141543.13318.peter@wemm.org> References: <20040914150419.GA7191@aoi.wolfpond.org> <200409141543.13318.peter@wemm.org>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:43:13PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 08:04 am, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > I'm running 5.3-BETA4 and I can't find <machine/pc/bios.h> even > > though bios(9) exists. > > It seems bios.h is only present on the i386 and alpha architectures. > > > > Is this normal on amd64 ? If yes, I would appreciate if someone could > > point me to an alternative to bios_sigsearch() > > We dont even have bios_sigsearch() - all the consumers in the kernel > were related to vm86()/bios16()/bios32() calls, which are impossible in > our kernel. This puzzles me, as the functions seem to be present on alpha. > What do you need it for? It might be ok to revive a subset of it, but > it would be useful to know what that file is being used for first, so > we know which subsets are needed. I am experimenting with Bruno Ducrot's powernow_k7 and need to read some tables in BIOS memory area. I will try to see if there is a way to do the same thing via acpi instead... -- Francois Tigeot
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