Reading BIOS on PC under UNIX ??

[Dave Levenson]

In article <2758 at laura.UUCP>, lengewit at 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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