Bug#454493: Display PCI slot for nics, if available
dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> writes:
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> I believe that currently the only way to know if a machine supports
> acpiphp is to load it. This seems to match up pretty well with my
> observations of other acpi drivers. acpid seems to take ownership of
> loading acpi modules like battery, fan, thermal, etc - it simply
> modprobes them and lets the driver do the discovery. Maybe it should
> also be loading acpiphp? Perhaps.
Maybe we might then think about something general for this type of problem.
> Does d-i do anything wrt loading acpi drivers today (other than
> installing acpid into the target)?
Yes. thermal and fan modules, IIRC but I'd also want to get batteries
detected so laptop-detect could work better.
I'm thinking that we might consider to have an acpi-support-udeb
package for that kind of thing be centralized on one cannonical place.
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