Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:45:36 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Well we support non-PnP ISA cards which are even more antiquated. I
> > dont see any reason why anyone would advocate excluding an entire
> > class of hardware simply because they dont like the interface.
> I don't think this necessarily includes ISA-PnP though, the interface
> might blow goats - but it doesn't make it completely unworkable, its
> just the current proposed 100% kernel solutions are inelegant (IMO)
> and seem very ISA centric, and don't necessarily have to be 100% done
> in the kernel.
Right now the kernel boot process goes something like:
Load up (init video, size memory, etc)
init drivers
mount root
start /sbin/init.
Is there any legitimate way to call /sbin/isapnptools before the drivers
are initialized? Or delay initialization of pnp drivers until after pnp is
configured.
-Dan
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