Re: 2.6 debian-installer
bruce@perens.com wrote:
> * Revise Hotplug pci.rc to use the sysfs mechanism to identify PCI
> devices and thus make it 2.6 compatible. Really trivial shell
> programming, and gets rid of the "can't synthesize PCI hotplug
> events" boot-time message. I don't understand why nobody has done
> it yet in making the rest of Debian 2.6 compatible. Perhaps nobody
> noticed? Is it in the hotplug CVS yet?
I did, but upstream is very slow at accepting patches.
I also removed all bashisms.
If there is any interest, maybe next month I will setup an arch
repository for my version.
> * Add these facilities to hotplug:
> o Detect parallel ports. Load the drivers first, then probe them.
> o Detect serial ports. Again, load the drivers first, then
> o Detect monitors on video cards.
These are not jobs for hotplug, as the kernel does not provide plug
events for these devices.
> * Add udev to the installer.
It's not even remotely ready for production.
(http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/)
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ciao,
Marco
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