Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:39:12 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:35:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync > > with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync. > > Disagree. Its reading BIOS tables not poking at kernel internals
It's still not very nice for userspace apps to touch hardware directly, even if it's just BIOS memory ...
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