From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 02:30:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289C716A4CE; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:30:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D8B43D45; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp108-195.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.108.195])i09ATuZC070691; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:59:57 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.dons.net.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i09ATsaW016266; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:59:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=), Scott Long Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:59:53 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <3FFE5211.5040606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401092059.53755.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.7 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:30:05 -0000 On Friday 09 January 2004 19:37, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI > IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported PCI > devices, and load the appropriate module. You know, when I wrote the code in sysinstall to load KLD's I thought about= =20 this.. Unfortunatly there IS no such list :( I am not sure how hard it would be to generate, but I think it's non-trivia= l=20 (although probably not too difficult to maintain once it exists) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5