Re: Identifying IDE chipset

Jochen F. Toppe (jtoppe@pluto.cs.uah.edu)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:12:52 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> If you cave a PCI board (with kernel support) just type
> "cat /proc/pci", otherwise how can a driver not configured for CMD640
> detect that CMD640 is present? That would mean that CMD640 is already
> in the driver!
>

Well, one would probably have to compile support for
every driver into the kernel, right? Or at least routines for
probing. If one does this for every device, talking about a bloated
kernel here.. Anyhow, I guess it's going to happen with all the PnP
stuff currently being developed anyways??

cheers,

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