how will hoary handle ISA hardware ?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Samstag, den 13.11.2004, 23:37 +0200 schrieb Alexander Poslavsky:
> 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.
it would be nice to have something like this, probably a tweaked
memtest.bin image i.e. detection.bin for all the prerelease CDs.
but as this feature is a thing that should go into the main
distribution, a detection tool in the default installer should be enough
(probably with a "detect" bootoption)... i think this is a very big
issue on the sabfl whishlist and i also think its a good task for the
conference.

i dug up this one on a old mailing list last week:
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.... has a lot of the code written by Donald Becker.  I ended up
finding Donald at the end of google searches for "ISA detect linux" and
such before I realised that he was a major contributor and probably
still is.

His reply is partially given here:

"[An environment to detect ISA cards] is basically just building a 2.2
or earlier kernel that includes all of the drivers I wrote.  The only
missing piece is producing a report of the devices, and
the resource they use.  The only place this was presented was the kernel
detection message."
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the network card stuff seems solvable, now i'm wondering what to do
about sound and scsi cards....
...so i'll dig on :)

ciao
	oli

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