Re: Calling PnP bios routines like get device node from x86_84 arch

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Sep 11 2007 - 05:43:32 EST


> Actually I want to call the BIOS run time functions as per the
> PNPBIOSSpecification-v1.0a (attached).

We use ACPI for x86_64, which means you need to use the ACPI methods not
the PnPBIOS ones. PnPBIOS isn't valid when ACPI is in use.

Alan
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