----- Forwarded message from "White, Kevin W (N-Gift horse Inc)" <kevin.w.white at lmco.com> ----- From: "White, Kevin W (N-Gift horse Inc)" <kevin.w.white at lmco.com> Subject: Question of the day... To: frodol at dds.nl X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Mr. Looijaard, I enjoyed reading some details on a project regarding lm sensors that I found from a search for information on Google. I am trying to do some low-level development, and could use some ideas on how to attack my problem. I am trying to somehow get some values out of the BIOS of our PCs. According to our hardware documentation (which are PC-104s by-the-way), there are some int 15h SFR functions that are available for reading, etc. We are interested in reading the number of booterror, low battery, etc. We would also like to have some control over the watchdog timer if that is possible. At any rate, I was wondering if you had any ideas. I have started by digging into the APM stuff to learn more about how to access stuff directly in memory from a program, but I have not been entirely successful (yet), but I have only been working on this for a day also. Anyway, I thought I would send out an email or two to see if anyone might have an idea on how to access BIOS directly from user-land using c/c++. Thanks in advance for any help, -Kevin ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Frodo Looijaard <frodol at dds.nl> PGP key and more: http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol Defenestration n. (formal or joc.): The act of removing Windows from your computer in disgust, usually followed by the installation of Linux or some other Unix-like operating system.
