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What do you folks do when the hardware dept. people do not provide a PCI bus, and everything in linux is predicated upon having a pci bus?<BR>
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No pci -> no hotplug -> no udev -> no usb.<BR>
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Do you hardwire all the drivers and devices?<BR>
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This is what I have done so far, all the dev are hardcoded in a ram disk, mounted to /ram, with symlink cleaning it allup to normal paths. I am curious, becauseof course all the docs are written by boobs using a desktop systm, and often include the phrase 'and so it just works.' Which of course is useless to someone trying to 'understand how it works'.<BR>
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Also need depmod to work in a cross-compile env too, right now it fails...<BR>
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Thanks for listening....<BR>
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Joe Robertson<BR>
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Joseph.Robertson@sanmina-sci.com<BR>
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