Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:11:03 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> One of the ideas that I've kicked around with some people here and the > ACPI guys is the notion of trigger device enumeration from userspace > completely. > > During the initramfs stage, a program (say devmgr) figures out what type > of system you have, where the PCI buses are, etc. It tells the kernel this > information, which then probes for existence, then loads drivers.
Sounds remarkably like the work that Greg has been doing with hotplug support.
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