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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.
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> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
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> 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
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>> in my modprobe.conf and to bind it into my initrd image?
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>> I took apart boot.iso but didnt find anything "readable" that
>> indicated how this was determined.
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ken
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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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