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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:38:54 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: orm0 - what is it?
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:13:16PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been wondering for quite some time to what device (or whatever else)
> the following line in my dmesg.boot refers:
> 
> orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> 
> The description "Option ROM" somehow doesn't help me to understand what
> this line means. Furthermore, though I'm not 100% sure, I think that I only
> get this line in the dmesg.boot on a few but not all of my machines, but I
> have been unable to find a "pattern" as to what differs between the
> machines that show the line and those that don't.
> 
> So, if anyone has an explanation what orm0 is, one more mystery would be
> solved ;-)
> 
> Greetings
> Nils

Did you try doing a 'man orm' ?

The short version is this device just claims ROMs on ISA cards to
prevent other devices from using that memory space.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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