Thank you for your reply,Jim. > Suggestion, in the messages printed by the kernel during booting, look at > the message for the behavior you're doing research on, and use recursive > "grep" in the kernel sources to find files containing a word or phrase in > that message. I was going to do that for you, for some representative > subsystems, but I'm on my work machine which doesn't have the sources > installed. > You can get kernel source codes in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ .
> I don't think Linux has a specific "mainboard driver" like Windows does; But I found many in http://www.treiberupdate.de/treiber-download/treiber-Mainboard/Motherboard-linux-0.html > hardware initialization is done with the subsystems (e.g. memory > management) to which it's relevant, and where necessary the actions are > conditional on the chipset, with both run-time tests and the possibility to > exclude a whole class of processors/chipsets at compile time. > > For autofs the kernel's generic filesystem code cooperates with a userspace > daemon, and this is all happening at a hardware independent level. > > James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 > UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) Regards, Victor _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
