Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 04:17:57 EST

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Followup to: <20020114034831.A5780@thyrsus.com>
By author: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>

dmesg is lossy. Don't assume it is complete.

-hpa

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