Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:23:04 -0800 (PST) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>: > > > Waitaminute. DMI is a *dying* standard? What, if anything, is > > > replacing it? > > > > ACPI > > OK. So can I ask ACPI if the board has ISA slots? Does it answer > reliably?
The ACPI info comes from the BIOS. So, it's no more reliable than any other BIOS, and probably less so than ones that do/did DMI, as there are so many aspects to it.
I would suggest reading the ACPI spec at http://acpi.info and the Intel implementation of it at
http://developer.intel.com/technology/IAPC/acpi/index.htm
for an idea of what it's supposed to do and what you can theoretically get from it.
-pat
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