Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

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

>the installer/configurator program loads a predefined DB with default LMs
>definition (serial and parallel ports are everywhere, so they are preloaded and
>listed in this file). Then the installer on user request, scan and loads all LM
>files in a standard directory, say /alliance/lm/iosk, and execute for each one
>LMprobe function, who reports on actual hardware. Then harvest and digest data,
>unload those LMs have failed probing, and on.

Well, that would work for serial and parallell ports and the like (ever
tried to install SuSE linux ?  It uses a similar probe mechanism to
automatically detect the hardware.)  OTOH, for PCI devices this wouldn't be
such a good idea - it's a far better idea to probe the PCI bus, and to only
have the drivers for devices that are on the PCI bus probe.  That means
that there needs to be a centralised place which is used to access the PCI
BIOS, ie, a PCI device.

Ramon

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