How Ubuntu(liveCD) detect hardware

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:07:01PM +0800, Trace Green wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >hotplug is a generic feature, so you'd probably be better off looking in
> >more general places for documentation on it. We don't do anything
> >particularly magic with it; we just run all the rc scripts.
> 
> So, do you mean Ubuntu don't do any specical modify on hotplug?

We have a few modifications, which you can find in the hotplug source
package.

> But i heard Ubuntu deal with hardware  detection in hotplug, Knoppix,
> Morphix, Gnoppix also have hotplug, so, what's the difference?

May well just be newer versions of the kernel and hotplug, and we have a
few kernel patches to tell the kernel about additional devices, which
will be exported to hotplug in the usual way. hotplug depends strongly
on the kernel telling it what to do.

Also, last time we looked at it, at least Morphix did not use hotplug as
its primary hardware detection mechanism.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]