Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-20 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:08:28PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:21:36AM -0700, David Kimdon écrivait: > > This idea for d-i is that the first disk (i386 only at the moment) does > > hardware detection of ethernet modules. After that the rest of the > > installer is

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:21:36AM -0700, David Kimdon écrivait: > This idea for d-i is that the first disk (i386 only at the moment) does > hardware detection of ethernet modules. After that the rest of the > installer is downloaded over the ethernet and the installer can proceed > with partiti

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:24PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > > I don't want to do something on my own, and do want to work with others. The > > only problem is that I have some deadlines at work, and that I try to both > > develop for a general purpose (d-i), and to address more peculiar and

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:14:50AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:00:41 +0200 > "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to write a "general purpose" script to build a general database > > from the Linux kernel sources. But there will be some particular problems

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread David Whedon
> supplementary resources via the device --- network fs). The trick is in fact > to try to have the smallest bootstrapping procedure and there seems to be > already a large part of the work done. > The last time I checked for libdetect it was such a huge beast and decided > to find another way to

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:13:19AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:30:41 +0200 > "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Just a summary of the principles I plan to use for, at least, my own stuff > > and that can be of some use for others too. > > > > The

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Glenn
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:00:41 +0200 "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to write a "general purpose" script to build a general database > from the Linux kernel sources. But there will be some particular problems > (exemple: when the *_pci_tbl is put in a file "main.c" and tha

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread David Kimdon
> [First we need to be able to reach _one_ supplementary source of data : > Network in this case, but this can be local disks too] > - GRUB as a bootloader Neat idea, using grub to choose modules. > > - > > These informations are spread (in the Linux kernel sourc

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:21:36AM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > > [First we need to be able to reach _one_ supplementary source of data : > > Network in this case, but this can be local disks too] > > - GRUB as a bootloader > > Neat idea, using grub to choose modules. As Glenn stressed, the

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread David Kimdon
> > Also David did kdetect, which (if i remember ocrrectly) uses both libpci and libisa >(if thats the right name) to handle isa cards too, even though pci has been standard >there are still lots of 10Mbit isa network cards still around, so ISA is something we >have to consider as well. > s/

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Glenn
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:30:41 +0200 "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Just a summary of the principles I plan to use for, at least, my own stuff > and that can be of some use for others too. > > The following will focus on the Linux kernel, but since the installation can

PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, Just a summary of the principles I plan to use for, at least, my own stuff and that can be of some use for others too. The following will focus on the Linux kernel, but since the installation can be independant from the OS installed, the use of a Linux kernel for other system installation