Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

[Stefano.Costa@italtel.it]

Ramon van Handel wrote:

> 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.)

Yes, I own SuSe.

> 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.

I have only a bit of knowledge about accessing cards on PCI bus, so I don't have a
precise answer, but we can do several LMs probing/using PCI facilities in each one,
or use two distinct LMs, on on top of the other,  that probe only PCI bus. The
important thing is that LMs have room for all options.

Stefano


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