On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:45:56AM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd. > > To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device selection, > > other than going through a list of drivers, trying to insmod each one > > until you are successful. > > Wouldn't PCI and ISA PnP support help here? Standard 2.0.x kernels support > /proc/pci since a long time, so it should be possible to check the device > names on /proc/pci against a table in order to load the apropriate modules.
That's what Red Hat does, and what I plan to implement for slink. It doesn't work for ISA cards though, therefore I plan to implement a method for manually selecting modules at install time as well (probably a modified "modconf"). > It should also be possible to deal with PnP just the same way, Yes, but we will have to create the "device -> module" table from scratch, as I don't know of anyone that maintains such a table. > although I > don't know what the status of the PnP support in the kernel is right now. None AFAIK. PnP devices are configured with user-space tools (pnpdump and isapnp). -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
