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[Devil-linux-develop] hardware detection

[Roland P. <rp...@ne...>]

Hi,
I recently read an article in the linux-user magazine about automatic module 
loading. To say it short: I didn't know it was so simple :-)
The author Mikro Doelle showed a 80 line bash script which loads modules for 
hardware it finds listed in the proc filesystem and is recognized by pci-ids 
database:
http://www.mirko-doelle.de/vdr/hwdetect
I think we could easily integrate an adapted version (after some perfomance 
tuning perhaps) into the boot process, doesn't even need to be in the etc 
image.
cu
Roland
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] hardware detection

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Roland Pabel wrote:

>Hi,
>I recently read an article in the linux-user magazine about automatic module 
>loading. To say it short: I didn't know it was so simple :-)
>The author Mikro Doelle showed a 80 line bash script which loads modules for 
>hardware it finds listed in the proc filesystem and is recognized by pci-ids 
>database:
>http://www.mirko-doelle.de/vdr/hwdetect
>I think we could easily integrate an adapted version (after some perfomance 
>tuning perhaps) into the boot process, doesn't even need to be in the etc 
>image.
>  
>

It will only work for PCI devices, but most of our users should use PCI 
anyway.
We already have the pci database included, it's here: /usr/share/pci.ids .

Of course we would need to run the script twice, once in initrd to 
detect all the SCSI controllers and later for the network cards and 
whatever else is in the system.
Did you get a chance to try the script?

And we should also translate the commentss into english ;-)

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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] hardware detection

[Roland P. <rp...@ne...>]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 17:26, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Roland Pabel wrote:
> >Hi,
[...]
>
> It will only work for PCI devices, but most of our users should use PCI
> anyway.
yeah, I don't think probing for isa cards is necessary any more
> We already have the pci database included, it's here: /usr/share/pci.ids .
> Of course we would need to run the script twice, once in initrd to
> detect all the SCSI controllers and later for the network cards and
> whatever else is in the system.
right, although SCSI controller modules should be put into the initrd by the 
user just to be sure...
> Did you get a chance to try the script?
not yet, I'll play around with it this evening. I'm curious if this wouldn't 
better be implemented using sysfs (instead of procfs), since that is what 
sysfs was designed for...
Roland
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] hardware detection

[Jean-Luc P. <Jea...@ib...>]

Hi,
Concerning hardware... is there any news concerning sata support ?
I have two dell optiplex 280 in my office, waiting for a sata Devil...  ;-)
(There is a bios/compatibility option, but it doesn't works fine...)
Regards,
    - pjluc

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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] hardware detection

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Jean-Luc Parouty wrote:

> Hi,
> Concerning hardware... is there any news concerning sata support ?
> I have two dell optiplex 280 in my office, waiting for a sata 
> Devil...  ;-)
> (There is a bios/compatibility option, but it doesn't works fine...)


We currently support whatever the linux kernel (2.4 in this case) supports.
Is it possible that you have to load a specific module?

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