Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/02/17:01:10
Hi,
at the top of boot bios prom of a 8088 that is in
hex ffff:fff0 there are some pointers. The very top 4
bytes is the start up vector. The other 12 contain the info
I think you need. I you look at some of the bios calls
which usually exist as c function calls you may find one
that returns what you require. I guess it's not changed
too much with the processor updates.
Regards Ian.
Ruiter de M wrote:
>
> Would it be possible to let uname detect the processor type in a next
> release?
>
> I personally don't know how, but it shouldn't be too difficult for
> *real* programmers.
>
> Right now, the only thing it reports is 'pc' which is of little use.
> --
> Groeten, Michel. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
> \----/==\----/
> \ / \ / "You know, Beavis, you need things that suck,
> \/ \/ to have things that are cool", Butt-Head.
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