On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 18:37 -0700, Brian W. Carver wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:55:24 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >> Because I guess I cannot figure out which module handles > >> the new Powerbook's SATA hard drive. > > > > PowerBooks don't have SATA drives. > > Right. I meant whatever that new ATA controller is. It > occurred to me that I had misspoke as soon as I sent that > message. I had a difficult time installing Debian due to > lack of ATA 100 support in older methods until I just > tried the Debian net install which worked perfectly. > > See: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/03/msg00553.html > > In general, this reminds me that I want to also ask: what > are the best ways to identify all one's hardware and to > figure out which kernel modules go with them? I know how > to do > lspci > lsusb > and to look at /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages > each of which provides good info on most of the hardware, > but what else can I do to tune my kernel to exactly my > hardware?
On powermac, those are not enough ... there are chips in the macio ASIC. Best is the machine model in /proc/cpuinfo I suppose. And then browsing /proc/device-tree (look for the lsprop command which makes it easy to read). Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
