Calling EISA BIOS from OS/2?

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From: Dave Sheehy
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:45

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   Has anybody had any luck accessing the EISA BIOS routines from OS/2? I've
been trying to fabricate a descriptor to them using PhysToUVirt with no luck
as yet. I've tried from both Ring 3 and Ring 0 and it fails at both levels.
The documentation to PhysToUVirt says that that call can be used to gain 
access to BIOS code. This code needs to work under OS/2 1.x and 2.0.

    While I'm writing does anybody know how to query for the OS/2 rev
programmatically, preferably from Ring 3? I've perused the DevHlp calls and
haven't found anything that will accomplish this.

Dave Sheehy
dbs@hprnd.rose.hp.com

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From: dbs@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Dave Sheehy)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:45:39 GMT
Subject: Calling EISA BIOS from OS/2?
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