Re: Changing PCMCIA default resource ranges

To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, 218579@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Changing PCMCIA default resource ranges
From: Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:53:47 +0200
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Frans Pop wrote:
> Someone on #d-boot mentioned that dmidecode could be used for that.

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The DMI information that contains the manufacturer name can be
> obtained from userspace with demidecode.

Yes, indeed, it looks like it would work fine. It's 49K
though... 20K compressed. Is there space left on the initrd?

And by the way, couldn't this utility be used for other purposes? For
example, maybe the packages in the old laptop task could be installed
conditionally if support for them is detected?

-- 
Pelle

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