direct BIOS access from Linux?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Wed Oct 19 10:30:01 EDT 2005


"hewitt_tech" <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> writes:

> I just accessed a web site called www.koders.com which can search most
> open source code. I put in the search words "get DMI info" and one hit
> was for a file called dmi_scan.c which is part of the 2.6.10 Linux
> kernel. Look's well commented and might make a good jumping off point.

Thanks, I think that's probably where the dmidecode stuff hooks in,
which is useful, but read only.  I want write access to my BIOS from
the OS :)
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Seeya,
Paul



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