Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

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

>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.

You can't 'own' SuSE because it's GPL :).  Anyway, you know what I mean then.

>> 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.

It's probably best to stack the LMs then...

Ramon

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