Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution

Eli Carter
2002-01-14T17:00:32Z

"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
>
> Michael Lazarou (ETL) <Michael.Lazarou@etl.ericsson.se>:
> > Doesn't this mean that you would need a fully functional kernel
> > before you get to run the autoconfigurator?
>
> Yes, but this was always true.

And if the reason you are building a new kernel is that the old one is
mis-identifying some of your hardware? ;)

Could you maybe describe the problem you are trying to solve a bit more
clearly than "the hardware-discovery problem for ISA devices"? If you
are trying to discover the ISA devices, but rely upon them having
already been discovered, what are you accomplishing?

Puzzled,

Eli
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