>From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:39:04 +0930 (CST)

>Yes indeedy - this one did go around tech-kern (if I remember
>correctly) for a while.  The last I heard someone was going to add the
>necessary bits to the kernel so that we can snarf the information out
>of the kernel.  I do have something hacked together that walks the
>kernel device tree and can tell you some things but it is very hackish
>because it has knowledge about private driver structures hard coded
>into it - very very very bad.  I am waiting for the "right" way to be
>implemented before doing the prtconf thang

That was probably me.  This work has already been done in OpenBSD, I
will adapt their code.
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