Re: Device detection?
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:23:25AM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> Stephen Crowley <crow@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:58:13PM -0500, Randolph Chung wrote:
>
> > > In that case.... how do you propose gathering this list? The
> > > ultimate goal of course is better and more automated hardware
> > > detection; it matters much less how we do it than that we *can* do
> > > it. It just seems that if someone has already done the detection
> > > for us, we should use the info. Of course, if we can develop a
> > > better strategy, that'd be nice too......
>
> > Well, looking at the source for the modules can provide a good start? maybe
> > those silly .inf files on windows driver disks could provide some help too.
>
> Well, for PCI stuff, Red Hat's install has a nice list, which IIRC is
> generated from headers in the kernel source.
>
> > > does Windows also detect hardware by identifying PCI/PnP ids? can
> > > we get our hands on a list of ids somewhere?
>
> PCI/PnP ids is the easy part - the hard part is detecting the other
> types of hardware.
>
Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible to do a brute force scan for
some older legacy hardware. Just cycle through the i/o and irq ports for
some commonly used hardware. Some devices might lock up on this though, so
they would have to be installed manually.
> To map PCI ids to drivers, look at "misc/src/install/pci-probing" in any
> RedHat archive.
>
>
> Steve
> dunham@cse.msu.edu
>
>
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