Re: Bootint big kernels
Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu> wrote:
> The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or
> enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.)
Yes, a lot of modern soundcards include an IDE controller, that is usually
configured with PnP. Also, my current network card (a 3Com 3c509) is also ISA
PnP. I had to move it by hand to the non-PnP mode in order to use it with
Linux.
> Digging through INF files in windows 95 would be a start. This is
> something that should be closely coordinated with the ISApnp
> utilities.
Yes, again. I recall somebody else asking about getting info from Window$ for
a similar purpose (monitor configuration, I think). The problem there could
be the copyright of that information, that probably belongs to MS or their
partners. I would be a good idea to find out about that before proceeding.
> There is a kernel patch to initialize them, and I have a patch to GRUB
> to pass the right magic to the kernel patch, but I don't use it right
> now. (Not necessary, since my only ISApnp device is not critical to
> booting.)
Is that Tom Lees' patch? I'll give it a try these days just to see if it is suitable for this purpose.
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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