In this post I discuss the differences between how UEFI hands off memory to the Linux Kernel and how old-fashioned BIOSes handled off memory via E820.
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Udisks is a means of enumerating disk and storage devices on Linux platforms and performing various operations on them. This post describes the technology behind udisks, the history of udisks, how to monitor udisks events and some simple operations you can do using udisks. This post shows you how use lspci to determine the vendor and product IDs of a device and use these IDs to locate a suitable driver driver in the ElRepo Enterprise Linux Repository. This post demonstrates how to programmatically retrieve digital monitor EDID information via sysfs. This post demonstrates how to access hard disk metadata such as disk geometry, capacility, manufacturer, serial number, firmware revision, rotational speed, and partiitioning information using libparted and various ioctls and output the metadata in a number of formats. |
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