Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 05:52:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: syscalls for getting information about system bus? Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0105080551070.29998-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET> In-Reply-To: <200105080946.f489kei02748@mass.dis.org>
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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> > I'm sure this probably reeks of cluelessness, but I'm wondering how I can
> > find each bus in the system, and if it's PCI/ISA/whatever, so that I could
> > say "1 PCI bus, 1 ISA bus in system", etc. without having to probe the
> > system directly, since I want to make what I'm working on portable.
>
> See libdevinfo in -current. There's nothing really portable for this
Thanks, looks like a start.
> sort of thing, though.
Yeah, I figured there wouldn't be, but I figured I'd try asking. I'm
trying to implement a '/sbin/hinv' for *BSD, and have been trying to make
it as generic as possible, so I don't end up over-relying on certain
hardware existing, etc.
Thanks
/joseph
>
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