Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:46:55 +0100 | From | Chris Boot <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] LED Class support for Soekris net48xx |
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Eric Lammerts wrote: > Chris Boot wrote: >> I'd love to find a way of detecting a Soekris net48xx device > > but there is no DMI or any Soekris-specific PCI devices. > > You could do ugly things like this: > > int i; > char *bios = __va(0xf0000); > > for(i = 0; i < 0x10000 - 19; i++) { > if(memcmp(bios + i, "Soekris Engineering", 19) == 0) { > printk("soekris string found at 0x%x\n", i); > } > } > > The string "net4801" is also in there (although I'm using a 4826). > > If anyone knows a better way, I'd like to know it too.
Hmm, very ugly indeed! Where did you dig those offsets up from? Are they likely to work properly in non-Soekris devices? I think just relying on people not loading the module when not in the correct hardware is probably the best option at the moment...
Chris
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