Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:16:56 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (mainly CMOS) - howto? Message-ID: <199707310846.SAA27474@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970730220235.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> from Simon Shapiro at "Jul 30, 97 10:02:35 pm"
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Simon Shapiro stands accused of saying:
>
> I need to have the followinf struct filled up with sane information.
"sane" or "correct"?
> Other than inb and outb to the BIOS registers, how do I get this data?
>
> typedef struct dpt_sysinfo {
> u_int8_t drive0CMOS; /* CMOS Drive 0 Type */
> u_int8_t drive1CMOS; /* CMOS Drive 1 Type */
Uhh, are you _NUTS_? Or if you don't care, just set them to 1, or 47.
> u_int8_t numDrives; /* 0040:0075 contents */
Uhm. This isn't a constant. Is '2' good enough?
> u_int8_t processorFamily; /* i386 vs. Alpha, etc. */
sysctl_byname on hw.machine will tell you sys.
> u_int8_t processorType; /* {3,4,5,6}86 */
There's a global cpu_class (in the kernel) which is set for this.
sysctl_byname on hw.model can be used to obtain it too.
> u_int8_t osMajorVersion;
> u_int8_t osMinorVersion; /* The OS version */
> u_int8_t osRevision;
> u_int8_t osSubRevision;
Parse the results of sysctl_byname on kern.osrelease / kern.osrevision
for this.
Care to explain the context? It might make guessing the "right" answers
a little easier 8)
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