Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:19:23 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Lionel Bouton wrote: > > > > If /proc/dmi were to go in soon, at least I *could* rely on it in 2.6. > > If in rc.sysinit a call to "dmidecode > /var/run/dmi" were to go in the > > user space 2.6 kernel build dependancies in Documentation/Changes, > > you'll be on the same level. > > Could even be done as part of Al's early-userspace, thus removing the > reliance upon vendors to do it. Does imply that you're building 2.6 on a > 2.6 enabled distro though.
Tell me more. This begins to sound potentially interesting -- I can certainly live with knowing the state of the DMI tables as of the time of last boot, as long as it's in a fixed location that the autoconfigurator can count on. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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