Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:13:47 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>: > Dave Jones (davej@suse.de) said: > > > You can make an educated guess. However it is at best an educated guess. > > > The DMI tables will tell you what PCI and ISA slots are present (but > > > tend to be unreliable on older boxes). > > > > And newer ones. I've seen 'Full length ISA slot' reported on a laptop > > for eg. > > I have an ia64 here that, according to dmidecode, has a > 32bit NUBUS slot in it. AFAIK, that's not the case. ;)
I just downloaded and tested Arjan deVen's dmidecode.c program. That will do what I want, but it has the irritating problem that it requires root privileges for access to /dev/kmem.
Is the DMI data available in /proc files anywhere?
If not, should it be? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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