Re: 2.0.pre36 Initialization order of drivers

Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Fri, 11 Sep 98 23:28 MET DST


In article <19980911115316.02662@albireo.ucw.cz> you write:
> Many current drivers have I/O and IRQ configurable with kernel command line
>parameters, isn't it an even better answer?

There may be situations where it's not possible, eg. you don't have the
docs handy, or you have created a boot disk without bootprompt. Fortunately
the latter problem can be cured by creating a bootdisk with nothing but
Lilo or ldlinux on it :-)

The best an most user friendly way would be a menu driven config utility
like that of FreeBSD... but I'm not going to implement that ;-)

hjb

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