On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:55, Per Olofsson wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I suppose there's not a way to somehow autodetect these laptops by > > something else and change the resource range only there? > > The brand and model of the computer is included in a BIOS structure, > which is read by the kernel to determine some other brokenness's. The > Dell laptops appear to have this structure. I could modify the kernel > to export this information through /proc. Maybe it would be useful for > other purposes too.
Someone on #d-boot mentioned that dmidecode could be used for that. For a sample output see [1]. [1] http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/toshiba/dmidecode.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
