Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

[Stefano.Costa@italtel.it]

Ramon van Handel wrote:

> >I hate firewalls :)

Me too.

> >only this night I can do it.
>
> Okay, I'm very curious ...

Resist :)

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

It's a 9-pin dot matrix? If so, it's good for printing listing and nothing else,
I guess. As testbed :).

> On modern systems, there are two dumps you can make:
>
>  - PCI dump

not so useful, at least from IOSK point of view....

>  - ISA-PnP dump

even this one. Something is useful, but for LPT/serial/keyboard I want something
else. I'll look around.

> 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.

a simple command line program it's all needed. It's only for black-box testers,
i.e. ones that don't want to look code but make useful work running the system.

Stefano


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