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Subject: Re: Checking hardware resources
From: Steve Borho <steve@borho.myip.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:02:05 -0600


On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 09:42:07PM -0500, Art Ross wrote:
> I'm aware of how to check the status of NIC's and
> serial ports, but is there a way in Linux to check
> out what IRQ's and base I/O's are being used and
> by what hardware.  When setting up a machine it
> would be nice to know what hardware is causing IRQ
> and/or base I/O address conflicts.

Every running device driver notifies the kernel of what IRQ and ioport
ranges are used.  They are presented to the user in /proc/interrupts and
/proc/ioports respectively.

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