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Old 10-22-2009, 01:20 PM
Zach Zwergel
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BIOS calls

Hi,
is it possible to access the bios in linux?
Sincerely,
ZZ

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Old 10-22-2009, 02:40 PM
Davorin Vlahovic
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Re: BIOS calls

[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:17:58 -0400] Zach Zwergel je napisao/la:
> Hi,
> is it possible to access the bios in linux?


Which part?

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Old 10-22-2009, 03:10 PM
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Re: BIOS calls

thumper/~ apropos bios
biosdecode (8) - BIOS information decoder
edd_id (8) - udev callout to identify BIOS disk drives via EDD
vbetool (1) - run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state

Also look at dmidecode and hwinfo. I'm sure there are others, depending
on what you actually want to achieve.
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Old 10-29-2009, 05:20 PM
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Re: BIOS calls

Zach Zwergel wrote:
> Hi,
> is it possible to access the bios in linux?
> Sincerely,
> ZZ
>

take a look at the source code for lrmi
i think you can use the same method to do a general real mode BIOS call
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi...ar.gz/download
Eric
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