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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:59:53 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=), Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x
Message-ID:  <200401092059.53755.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzp1xq91oei.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <3FFE5211.5040606@freebsd.org> <xzp1xq91oei.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Friday 09 January 2004 19:37, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav 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=
=20
this..
Unfortunatly there IS no such list :(

I am not sure how hard it would be to generate, but I think it's non-trivia=
l=20
(although probably not too difficult to maintain once it exists)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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