RE: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution

Michael Lazarou (ETL)
2002-01-14T11:18:47Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:esr@thyrsus.com]
> Subject: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution
>
>
> I've been thinking about the hardware-discovery problem for
> ISA devices,
> and there may be an elegant solution. It will take a number
> of small changes
> to the kernel sources, however.
>
> The kernel's device drivers have, of course, to include probe
> routines, and those hard-compiled in typically log the presence of
> their hardware to /var/log/mesg when it loads. By scanning that
> file, we in effect get to use those probes.

Doesn't this mean that you would need a fully functional kernel
before you get to run the autoconfigurator?

Michael