Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:22:52 +0100 (CET) | From | Alex <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alex wrote: > > > Maybe the best thing would be to supply the kernel a "large" _textfile_ > > with all the hardware the user definitely has (at such-and such > > irq/dma/io); the textfile could be the output resilt from a > > "userfriendly" hardware-detection tool that lists all categories of > > hardwares etc. and has - generally - a large hardware database. > > Think about ancient hardware (Yes theres lots of it still in use) > These beasts had jumpers to set IRQ/DMA etc, and this was not detectable > from software until PNPISA arrived on the scene. > > You're still going to need user interaction for a lot of these.
That is why I recommended that the textfile is the output of an interactive hardware-detection tool. Yes, interactive. :-)
> "But Microsoft doesn't" isn't an argument any more either, they dropped > support for really ancient hardware a long time ago.
Show them that we can do better. :-D
Alex
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