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Re: PCI autodetection



Will Lowe <harpo@thebackrow.net> writes:

> (I just remembered:) 
> 
> The reason I did it in C rather than in ash was that I wanted the program
> to be usable _before_ base.tar.gz is untarred (and hence before grep and
> the rest of busybox is available)

busybox and mini-grep are on the root filesystem, not the base set.

> -- I'd like dbootstrap to be able to
> probe the PCI devices and find the network card, configure the network,
> and _then_ fetch the base filesystem. :)

Sure, of course.  The 'configure drivers' step.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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