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From: dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reading BIOS on PC under UNIX ??
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Date: 2 Nov 90 04:16:18 GMT
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In article <2758@laura.UUCP>, lengewit@ludger.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Peter Lengewitz) writes:
...
> Does someone know if and how it is possible to access the contents of
> the BIOS of a PC'386 via C program under UNIX (Interactive UNIX and
> SCO UNIX)?

I haven't tried this, but I would expect that you could look at the
special file /dev/mem arount location 0xf0000 or so.  The program
which does this needs to be executed by root, or be set-uid root.


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