Greetings,
Thank you to everyone who sent in your suggestions on
my question. I found that Dr. Tom Blinn, was correct
about the v5.x kernel, in that most of it's devices
are not slot dependent and will auto-configure. Thanks
again to everyones help! Here is Dr. Tom Blinn's
answer:
Yep, in a V5.x kernel, almost all the hardware
interface drivers use
the "config_driver" method, which is new in V5.0 and
later (the first
really dynamic driver infrastructure was in about
V4.0F but most of
the drivers were not updated to use the full
implementation until
V5.0). With "config_driver" the driver is built into
the kernel,
but it isn't slot dependent and it isn't limited to a
particular
count of the number of units (the driver may have
limits, but it
isn't based on how many data structures were
statically allocated
when you built the kernel). Makes things MUCH more
scalable, once
you get it all implemented (which took maybe five
years longer than
it should have taken).
Original Question:
--- Octave Orgeron <unixconsole_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm playing with a PCI card that I think may not
> like
> the slot that it's in. I'm on a PC164LX mobo. I
> wanted
> to know what I have to do if I want to swap slots.
> Do
> I have to boot the generic kernel or something to
> prevent the kernel from complaining at boot time?
> What
> is the best way of doing this?
>
> -Octave
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 01 2001 - 17:04:54 NZDT