[Devil-linux-develop] Should we use something like libhardware?

[Dean N. <di...@ti...>]

Found this package: http://www.badpenguin.org/pub/software/libhardware/

Its purpose?  Well, from freshmeat:
It provides functions to access information about your system hardware, to
detect the hardware, and to handle kernel modules automatically. It is able
to enumerate all PCI devices, enumerate all EIDE disks and CDROMs, enumerate
all SCSI disks and CDROMs, enumerate all EIDE/SCSI disk partitions, and
check if a detected device is supported in the Linux kernel using a custom
PCI database. It can also handle USB devices. The included shell scripts
'probedisk' and 'probepart' detect disks, CDROMs, and partitions. The
included 'scanmodule' utility allows you to detect devices and load their
kernel modules automatically

Why do I think we should include it?  So that we can stop having to have
people figure out which module to load for their ethernet card!  Also, it
will handle loading the right sound drivers - for those people who want to
have sound on their Devil-Linux.

Other choices?  Of course - the program that Knoppix uses, whatever Red Hat
uses (anaconda?), etc.

Just my thought for the day. :-)

Dean Nedelman
TimeLord Consulting