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DateThu, 3 Jan 2002 13:39:12 +0100
FromVojtech Pavlik <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:35:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync
> > with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync.
> 
> Disagree. Its reading BIOS tables not poking at kernel internals

It's still not very nice for userspace apps to touch hardware directly,
even if it's just BIOS memory ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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