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Subject: Re: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) 
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 14:21:44 +0900
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>Anyone likely to complain if I add a new datastructure to i386/bios.c and 
>start populating it with stuff that various parts of the system glean 
>about the BIOS environment?  Or should I be using a procedural lookup 
>interface for this?
>eg. either:
>	foo = i386biosinfo->bios_memsize;
>or
>	error = i386biosinfo("memsize", &foo)
>??

	(this mail does not talk about whether we will have this feature,
	or not...)

	I like the prior one better since the spelling mistake can be
	found by the compiler.  In the latter case spelling mistake like
	i386biosinfo("memsizee", &foo) can be detected only in runtime.

itojun