Ubuntu Performance Question

lada-h8kxHjy+vg4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org lada-h8kxHjy+vg4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jul 17 16:49:53 UTC 2007


> LPC is software compatible with ISA although very different in hardware.
> Generally this is where hardware monitor chios, the BIOS, and a few
> other things are connected.  Even your serial/parallel ports are still
> connected through a virtual isa/lpc bus even though they are inside the
> chipset.  Just leaves things compatible with what software expects.
>
> As for why the P3 doesn't list such things, well maybe it doesn't have
> whatever interface lshw uses to determine such things.  Looks like is
> uses DMI for that, which older machines often didn't have or had pretty
> minimal information in.
> 
> --
> Len Sorensen

You depth of knowledge always amazes me. Thank you for your help.

Ladislav 


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