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Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:50:04 +0200
From: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:32:00AM +0200, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> Guido told me he is working device detection based on ARCS calls. I'm
> not sure is this way will be acceptale for him...
Having what the ARC spec calls "System Configuration Data" in a tree
like structure would be a nice thing, I think. I have some code for this
around here but wanted to check sysfs in 2.5 to see if it eases up the
representation - we could finally properly detect the primary graphics
board with that.
 -- Guido