Re: Bootint big kernels
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
> I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd.
> To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device selection,
> other than going through a list of drivers, trying to insmod each one
> until you are successful.
Wouldn't PCI and ISA PnP support help here? Standard 2.0.x kernels support
/proc/pci since a long time, so it should be possible to check the device
names on /proc/pci against a table in order to load the apropriate modules.
It should also be possible to deal with PnP just the same way, although I
don't know what the status of the PnP support in the kernel is right now.
Regards,
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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