Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PCI && PIII Questions | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:25:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial > number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to > read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could > get the serial number from the OS)?
Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value.
> 2) In the O'reilly book Linux Drivers there are several routines for > getting PCI interface information. An attempt to try some of the example > code comes up with several routines as undefined. pcibios_strerror() is > one, pcibios_find_device() is another, how do I get these functions defined?
Make sure your kernel is built with PCI support firstly. Also for 2.2 the functions changed to a generic PCI interface
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