I believe most of anaconda's "magic" comes from probing the PCI and USB
bus for vendor and device IDs. If you dig into a driver (for example,
e1000e), you will find a pcitable listing all of the IDs the driver
supports. If you look in /lib/modules/<kernel>/ you will find a
modules.pcimap and modules.usbmap among other bus types.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Mark
Ken Teh wrote:
How does a system determine the appropriate sata driver?
Specifically, how does anaconda figure out to write
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
in my modprobe.conf and to bind it into my initrd image?
I took apart boot.iso but didnt find anything "readable" that
indicated how this was determined.
Thanks!
Ken
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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Digital Systems Engineer
National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
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