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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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