FS#3479 - Autodetection during bootprocess

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 14 November 2005, 14:33 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi here a small feature request that collects the files, and that other can test the files too.
chmod the script with chmod 755 before copying.
copy hwdetect to /sbin/
copy rc.sysinit to /etc/
copy mkinitrd to /sbin/
copy hotplug to /etc/rc.d/
Add AUTODETECT=1 to /etc/rc.conf and load hotplug daemon's array
enjoy new/faster autodetection
mkinitrd now uses the hwdetect for HOSTCONTROLLER's
greetings
tpowa
   hotplug (0.7 KiB)
   rc.sysinit (6.7 KiB)
   mkinitrd (18.9 KiB)
   hwdetect (7.5 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 19 November 2005, 16:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  hwdetect is now part of initscripts
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Monday, 14 November 2005, 22:34 GMT
What's wrong with lshwd? or lshw?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 14 November 2005, 23:26 GMT
ok next version of hwdetect, now no need for hotplug anymore,
hwdetect handles now also PNP devices.
saves us more time on boot \o/
   hwdetect (7.9 KiB)
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Monday, 14 November 2005, 23:45 GMT
lshw? lshwd?
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 02:56 GMT
hwdetect isn't bound by static tables, so it can adapt to new hardware as quickly as the kernel itself.

For example, hwdetect knows that I need the "slamr" module for my Thinkpad modem (provided by the slmodem package). lshwd doesn't know that, b/c they haven't added that specific device to their tables yet.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 06:02 GMT
ok thanks for clarifying that.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 18:16 GMT
next version of hwdetect now with full PNP support as hotplug and some other small additions
   hwdetect (5.6 KiB)
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 17 November 2005, 08:18 GMT
ok added new hwdetect and mkintird to testing repo.

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