Re: Auto kernel module loading

From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des_at_ofug.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:07:37 +0200
"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs_at_tcoip.com.br> writes:
> Plan once was for loader to identify the PNP IDs and load the
> appropriate modules. What the appropriate modules were would be
> infered from a configuration file.

You can't do it in the loader.  It would have to scan the PCI bus,
properly set up all bridges etc. to discover all devices.  Keep going
in that direction and you end up with a complete kernel instead of a
minimal loader.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des_at_ofug.org
Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 16:07:43 UTC

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