Re: PCI autodetection
Will Lowe <harpo@thebackrow.net> writes:
> > For boot-floppies for Potato? I am not sure we'd be allowed to add
> > this sort of change to potato -- anaconda isn't included in Potato.
>
> This is _hacked_ from anaconda, but isn't anaconda itself. It's one
> smallish (22k if you build the "tiny" version) binary. It can't get a
> whole lot smaller because of the table needed to make vendor/device ids to
> driver names, but if anyone has any suggestions for reducing the
> footprint, I'd be happy to hear them.
>
> I'm hacking into into the potato boot-floppies because I need it for
> another Debian-derived project, whether or not Debian wants to try to put
> it into one of the 2.2rX releases.
Hmm. It's possible. Obviously I can't rely on stuff which is not in
boot-floppies (or debian-boot) CVS area or else packaged and in
stable.
> I know that the current thinking is that boot-floppies will disappear for
> woody, but it seems like this code could be useful in whatever will
> replace it also.
Sure. I'm not sure i, for woody, stuff like this ought to be packaged
separately or provided as a udpkg package.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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