how will hoary handle ISA hardware ?

Sat Nov 13 15:37:57 CST 2004

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:16:00 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:43:18PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 11.11.2004, 09:17 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > > Someone with access to test hardware (I donated my last system with ISA
> > > slots over a year ago) and an interest in improving the autodetection will
> > > need to come forward.
> > fine, so i'll dig through my cellar and ask friends for antique HW....
> > any idea how to get the info out of the HW ? is pnpdump still
> > appropriate with 2.6 ?
> 
> I'm not sure.  /proc/bus/pnp has the necessary information, and there are
> various tools to read it (such as lspnp in pcmcia-cs).

i have access to a rather large amount of older hardware, most if it
is still in use, so it would be nice if it would be possible to test
without doing a complete install, can it be done from some sort of
(small) live-cd? If so i could help.

greets, AP