Re: redesigning the debian installer
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:08:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:15:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > > That's true, but a more generalized point is that more and more
> > > > hardware (sparc, ultrasparc, powerpc, dunno about the rest) support
> > > > openfirmware or openboot, and it's possible to traverse the
> > > > openfirmware device tree with pretty damn good results.
> > >
> > > I don't think libdetect knows anything about openfirmware. Do you know
> > > of any hw detection code that does?
> >
> > Nope, but it would be nice to see such code. On the downside, most
> > non-standard hardware supported by UltraSPARC Linux, doesn't have, nor
> > need OpenPROM. If only Sun didn't require license/money/other crap for
> > vendors to support their PROM :/
>
> Sure, although any bootable device by definition will support it.
>
> Sparcs and powerpc also have PCI support for the most part -- maybe
> the focus should be just on PCI support. Then we could look at SBUS
> on older sparcs as a sideline?
Concentratin on PCI is the goal, IMO. SBUS device detection is overkill.
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