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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> You can make an educated guess. However it is at best an educated guess.
> The DMI tables will tell you what PCI and ISA slots are present (but
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> tend to be unreliable on older boxes).  You can also look for an ISA bridge
> in lspci as a second source of information.

That sounds like it might be what I'm after.  My goal is to be able to probe 
the machine and set ISA_CARDS based on the probe.  What's a DMI table and
how can I query it for the presence of ISA slots?

What I want to do with this is make ISA-card questions invisible on modern
PCI-only motherboards.
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