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Any other ways to detect COM ports beside probing and ACPI?

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:45 pm
by devsau
Currently, I have found that the legacy_devices flag in the acpi boot_arch table does not always seem to be accurate. In say 90% of machines, it is.. but sometimes not.

Is there any other real way to detect these? I were wondering if maybe there is a pci sub-class code for PCI to ISA bridges like there is for the 8259 and 8254.

thank you :D

Re: Any other ways to detect COM ports beside probing and AC

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:34 pm
by darkinsanity
How about the BDA?

Re: Any other ways to detect COM ports beside probing and AC

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:11 pm
by devsau
darkinsanity wrote:How about the BDA?
wow I don't know how I ever missed that. thank you.