Re: Bootint big kernels
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:45:56AM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
> 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.
That's what Red Hat does, and what I plan to implement for slink. It
doesn't work for ISA cards though, therefore I plan to implement a method
for manually selecting modules at install time as well (probably a
modified "modconf").
> It should also be possible to deal with PnP just the same way,
Yes, but we will have to create the "device -> module" table from
scratch, as I don't know of anyone that maintains such a table.
> although I
> don't know what the status of the PnP support in the kernel is right now.
None AFAIK. PnP devices are configured with user-space tools (pnpdump and
isapnp).
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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