Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:03:19 +0100 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: /proc/pci deprecation? |
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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:46:58PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:15:59PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu: > > * Erik Hensema (usenet@hensema.xs4all.nl) wrote: > > > > > > Every half-decent installer autodetects all PCI devices. AND had lspci > > > installed in the install image. > > > > Yes, but wait till you find yourself stuck on a weird embedded board > > with a small flash and a serial console and you are trying to debug the > > PCI device you've built. > > In this weird embedded board with small flash it'd be lovely to save one > more page (or perhaps more) in the kernel image, no? :-)
Agreed. But -=*if*=- I want to.
I would personally prefer to spend the page in the (compressed in flash!) kernel image than the nine pages or so for "lspci" (possibly compressed as well).
Roger.
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