Re: AW: accessing bios from kernel module

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On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:00 +0200, Weber Matthias wrote:
> Hi Arjan,
> 
> thanks for the fast reply. We use an industrial mainboard which offers
> access to general purpose IO (4xIn / 4xOut) via int 0x15. The
> Documentation describes that bios call as the only way to read and set
> those IOs.
> I tried lrmi but it crashes when i set eax exactly to the value
> needed. All other calls seem to work :(

that's probably one of the "bad luck" cases then ;(
> 
> Do you have suggestions for other user mode tools which i could try?

not really; one thing you can do is just disassemble the bios and use
that to reverse engineer the hardware board.... or maybe poke the vendor
if they *really* don't have a linux driver at all..

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven


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