Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:48:31 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution |
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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>: > ISA is not a software enumerable bus especially not for unprivledged > users. And no amount of complaining will change that. That is why we > have PNP ISA and PCI.
But the kernel itself has to know how to probe and initialize these devices at boot time, correct? That information is implicitly exported via /var/log/dmesg -- I'm simply suggesting that it be a little more explicit.
> > But suppose the format of boot-time driver messages were standardized in a > > format that included their config symbol in a discoverable form? > > If there was an ISA device in your example it might be interesting.
Some of the on-board devices on my Tyan Thunder are ISA.
> > With this change, generating a report on ISA hardware and other > > facilities configured in at boot time would be trivial. This would > > make the autoconfigurator much more capable. Best of all, the only > > change required to accomplish this would be safe edits of print format > > strings. > > It sounds like what you want is an lsmod that lists compiled in > modules.
Would that be feasible without root privileges in order to read kmem? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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