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Question: do you have to be root to link a pci device driver

Forum: Device Drivers
Keywords: pci device drivers
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:56:46 GMT
From: Brad Ondricek <badbrad74@hotmail.com>

I am trying to write a pci device driver however at link time I get undefined references to the pcibios calls defined in <linux/bios32.h> I was wondering if i had to have root uid or if there is a special library I need to link with.