Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:38:54 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: orm0 - what is it? Message-ID: <20020114113854.GA45862@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20020114121316.A154@tisys.org> References: <20020114121316.A154@tisys.org>
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:13:16PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been wondering for quite some time to what device (or whatever else) > the following line in my dmesg.boot refers: > > orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 > > The description "Option ROM" somehow doesn't help me to understand what > this line means. Furthermore, though I'm not 100% sure, I think that I only > get this line in the dmesg.boot on a few but not all of my machines, but I > have been unable to find a "pattern" as to what differs between the > machines that show the line and those that don't. > > So, if anyone has an explanation what orm0 is, one more mystery would be > solved ;-) > > Greetings > Nils Did you try doing a 'man orm' ? The short version is this device just claims ROMs on ISA cards to prevent other devices from using that memory space. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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