21 Dec
2002
21 Dec
'02
3:43 p.m.
* Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [021220 16:02]:
no, this is an i/o address.
I'm a bit lost; are you running this code as a user or in the kernel or ...
if as user, you have to be root, and there ought to be an iopl() call somewhere in the code, else you will get SEGV.
It's kernel code, the /dev/bios driver available in OpenBIOS cvs.
Stefan
--
The x86 isn't all that complex - it just doesn't make a lot of
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Microprocessor Report (1994)