On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Juan Jose Pablos wrote:

> Nils Olav Fossum escribió:
> > Torsdag 12 april 2007 12:22, skrev Juan Jose Pablos:
> > 
> >> I think that we should look for some way to detect the hardware when
> >> booting from the linuxboot and creata oempnp path just for those drivers.
> >>
> >> At the moment you have to select which directories need to be added on
> >> the oempnppath
> > 
> > I been thinking along the same line :)
> > We need some way to handle hardware 'profiles'
> 
> well, what I have got in mind is not tide to hardware profile, neither 
> to  BTS drivers.
> Say that you have one folder with subfolders and each one has windos 
> drivers
> 
> say /drivers/net/3com
> 
> For each driver, you get on the *.INF file this information:
> 
> 
> [3COM]
> %PCI\VEN_10b7&DEV_9200&SUBSYS_100010B7.DeviceDesc% =PCIEL905CTXM.ndi
> 
> so you parse this file and created a file with this info:
> 
> 10b7:9200:100010B7,/drivers/net/3com
> 
> 
> Then you run the linux boot if matches then add /drivers/net/3com to the 
>   oempnppath

How would you handle diffrent version of drivers for the same hardware?

I have multiple drivers for Intel chipset, and I dont always upgrade the 
driver version for older computers, cause "if it aint broke why fix it"

Sometimes you got X computers with the same hardware but diffrent 
software versions that requires diffrent version of the driver. Seems to 
remember we had the problem ages ago with some controler stuff.


Nils
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Nils Østbjerg
SAMF-IT, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark

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