Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

[vhandel@chem.vu.nl (Ramon van Handel)]

>Ramon van Handel wrote:
>
>> Don't put it in /research -- after all, this isn't research (research are
>> simulations and the like, this is REAL :)).  Anyway, large attachments
>> don't work on the new list, so you should just make a driver tree and put
>> it there, I guess.
>
>Is not large (20K uncompressed more or less),  but it's best to put in CVS
>anyway.  But since here in office don't have ftp/telnet,

I hate firewalls :)

>only this night I can do it.

Okay, I'm very curious ...

>> I have a VERY old printer, a Star LC-10 9-pin dot matrix thingie.  :)
>>
>> >check if some data is printed out.
>
>Perfect, exactly what I want.

I'm not too pleased with my printer, but I'm glad I can be of service as LM
tester ;)

>> I have to get a distro based on the 2.2 kernel.
>> I'm going to be running fine as soon as I can get starbuck.
>
>In fact, I was astonished of your non-intervetion for a while :).
>I have one *strong* requirement: we will need a program that sniff out PC
>hardware configuration. In fact, when device LMs will pop up, and even for
>this
>one, we need to check effectevely real configuration/detected one. So a thing
>like a dump of low-level variables is needed, without waiting for generic
>people input, which always miss things, and add only delay. I'll put it later
>on parallel LM something, I guess.

On modern systems, there are two dumps you can make:

 - PCI dump
 - ISA-PnP dump

I have code at home for both of these (not written by me :)).  I was
originally thinking we should make a special IOSK 'hardware configuration
device' (block device) that can be used to directly fetch or change the HW
configuration...  It's something that I think can wait until the system
works a bit better - it's not urgent, and we can always easily change our
other LMs to use it if neccessary.

Ramon


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Ramon van Handel   <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
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