Re: How to read BIOS information

[Madhukar Mythri]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:44 +0530, Madhukar Mythri wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >     Im new to this group.
> > I want to get some information from BIOS. i.e i want to know whether 
> > Hyperthreading is Enabled/Disabled(as per BIOS settings)  from an user 
> > applications program.
> >    
>
> there is no standard way to do this. You can use /proc/cpuinfo to see if
> the kernel found ht'd processors. But that's the best you can do.
> (well you could grovel through the acpi tables just like the kernel
> does, but you really don't want to do that from userspace)
>
>
>  
"proc/cpuinfo" says only HT support is their or not but, it will not say 
whether HT is Enalbled/Disabled..
How to read ACPI tables ? Can  you give little info on this...
even from Driver program, if its possible please tell me...


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