Mark Stodola wrote:
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
Hi Ken,
On SL 5, alot of that data comes from hwdata, which is in the
/usr/share/hwdata directory.
The main ones people and programs look at is
pci.ids and usb.ids
But there are other files in there.
Troy
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