Re: Bug#96638: ITP: libkudzu
Hi David!
(cc'ing to debian-devel)
You wrote:
> Can you compare libdetect or discover
>
> http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/dists/Progeny1.0/main/source/base/discover_0.9.19.tar.gz
>
> to kudzu?
I really have no idea. Since kudzu has no serious documentation
whatsoever, it's quite hard to find out what devices it can actually
detect. The README file says:
2) What type of devices does kudzu detect?
Currently, kudzu detects:
- PCI cards
- SBUS cards
- serial devices (PnP devices, mice, modems)
- parallel port devices (printers)
- SCSI devices (provided the appropriate SCSI modules are loaded)
- IDE devices
- PS/2 mice
- Keyboards on SPARC
So that's not very helpfull either.
Based on the little that I've seen of libdetect, it's probably a more
robust tool.
> We're using libdetect at the moment on debian-installer, I had thought that
> kudzu was dead, but I guess not. What I would like is to have a real hardware
> detection system that continues after the main installation. That way when new
> hardware is added to the system we could help the user make the necessary
> software changes.
Is there already policy on how this hardware detection should be
implemented?
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