Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Lazarou (ETL)" <> | Subject | RE: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:17:58 +0100 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:esr@thyrsus.com] > Subject: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution > > > I've been thinking about the hardware-discovery problem for > ISA devices, > and there may be an elegant solution. It will take a number > of small changes > to the kernel sources, however. > > The kernel's device drivers have, of course, to include probe > routines, and those hard-compiled in typically log the presence of > their hardware to /var/log/mesg when it loads. By scanning that > file, we in effect get to use those probes.
Doesn't this mean that you would need a fully functional kernel before you get to run the autoconfigurator?
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