Re: [ANNOUNCE] Framework for automatic Configuration of a Kernel

From: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.aau.dk>
To: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Framework for automatic Configuration of a Kernel
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:58:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <433941E0.7010005@cs.aau.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050927125300.24574.qmail@web51014.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Ahmad,

Ahmad Reza Cheraghi wrote:
> 
> Again another good Idea. Your right;-) Its better. 
> But it better getting another way of detecting the
> Hardware/Software etc. from the System without using
> lspci or the proc-files...?

Well, the proc files are always here (it removes one requisite which is
to have lspci installed). So, I would go for the proc files.

> Something that gets all
> the Hardware Information directly from the I/O and not
> from the Kernel. The good thing about lspci is that it
> does both . But it doesnt say if there is  a CDROM or
> floppy-disc... 

Well, lspci is for PCI bus devices, it's already a lot, but not
everything (that's why you need several scripts/methods to detect
hardware, I guess).

> I tryed alot to search for something
> like that but without any success. I heard about this
> Otopia Project. I google after it but I didnt find
> anything usefule. I think its dead. 

I don't know this project.

Regards
-- 
Emmanuel Fleury

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