> Is there any easy way to read the contents of a system BIOS from userland?
No. Most modern BIOS code is paged, compressed and in some cases encrypted. > bios(9) seems to have some very specific kernel-related BIOS routines, but > nothing generic. I'm trying to write a program that will dump the BIOS > image to stdout so that I can use strings(1) to sniff out version strings > and other textual data on systems that can't be rebooted and/or easily > reached. If this is all that you want, you can just open /dev/mem and read the section between 0xe0000 and 0xfffff, much of this information is in there. A better approach, however, would be to look at the SMIBIOS data. I don't have my old SMIBIOS work handy, but Paul Saab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hacked it up into something usable and you should ask him (copied) if he would mind passing it on. Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
