Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sysctl interface to bootflags? | From | Thomas Hood <> | Date | 09 Oct 2001 11:21:14 -0400 |
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Hi. I looked at your code and I saw that it depended on ACPI. Since ACPI doesn't work on my machine, I thought I should look for another solution. However, Alan now tells me that what I want to do can already be done via /dev/nvram.
Thanks to both of you. Thomas
On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 10:15, Dave Jones wrote: > On 9 Oct 2001, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > Would it be a good idea to do this using the sysctl infrastructure? > > If so, can someone please suggest an appropriate pathname for > > the flag files? How about "/proc/sys/BIOS/bootflags/diagnostics" > > and "/proc/sys/BIOS/bootflags/PnP-OS" ? > > If this is a bad idea, someone please stop me before I waste my > > time implementing it. > > Last week, I pointed you at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/sbf.c > Can you give a reason why this needs to be done in kernel space ? > > regards, > > Dave.
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