Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Fri Jan 9 02:30:05 PST 2004


On Friday 09 January 2004 19:37, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 2) use pciconf -l (or direct access to /dev/pci) to retrieve the PCI
>    IDs of unclaimed devices, look them up in a list of supported PCI
>    devices, and load the appropriate module.

You know, when I wrote the code in sysinstall to load KLD's I thought about 
this..
Unfortunatly there IS no such list :(

I am not sure how hard it would be to generate, but I think it's non-trivial 
(although probably not too difficult to maintain once it exists)

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