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SubjectRe: BIOS Name Strings? (Help!)
Hi!

> I would really like to do this. Although the problem can be solved by
> not compiling in PCI, that is not an option for distributions in all
> cases. Detection of faulty BIOSes (especially faulty ones that have
> easily fixed problems that can't be ignore) would be a nice feature, in
> my opinion. My only problem is that I don't know how to get the BIOS
> name string and version number with which to make a compare against and
> know of no other way to detect it.
>
> Can someone please help me? I'm sure there's a simple solution. Well, I
> *hope* there's a simple solution. :)

What about checksumming whole bios?

Pavel

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Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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