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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:42:31 +0100
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:16:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't propose having human-readable output of DMI data in /proc, just
> > the binary data much like /proc/bus/pci has. That isn't much bloat in
> > kernel, and is a clearly defined interface, unlike reading /dev/kmem.
> 
> kmem is a cleanly defined interface

For reading the memory contents, not for searching for BIOS data.
Anyway, I see this discussion doesn't lead anywhere, so I guess I'd
better just stop.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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