Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:06:12 +0800 From: kylin <fierykylin@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Enumerating devices and hardware conf from userland Message-ID: <87ab37ab05082405065fb8252@mail.gmail.com>
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>I'm developping a tool running in userland (root) (a command line >tools) for enumerating all devices present on the machine : >This tool must scan all hardware buses : pci, but usb, firewire, ide, >etc.... and retreive devices states : configure, not configured, handle >by a driver, not handle by a driver, witch modules is the driver. >And I want to have all devices present inside a machine. >In some recent Kernel, there is a way from userland, to take a handle >from the root hardware tree, enumeratiing first buses, and under buses, >witch device are connect to those buses. This is is what I am looking >for. do u just need the read function on the sysctl or do something from the deep end into kernel ? does http://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcdownload.cgi really help？ -- we who r about to die,salute u!
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