On Friday 14 March 2008 10:37:14 am Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> > Unfortunately, you do appear to have hardware that does
> > non-deterministic
> > device enumeration. Might be worth trying out the kernel
> > parameter 'pci=bfsort' (see kernel
> > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt).
>
> Ok....
>
> "non-deterministic device enumeration" is quite a mouthfull. Is that
> something to do with the BIOS, motherboard or just the pci devices

BIOS and motherboard.

> and
> does suppliers in your expierence include reference to whether hardware
> is deterministic or not in technical manuals.

I haven't explicitly seen it mentioned in any manuals, but I haven't really
looked either. I do recall seeing kernel patches in the past for specific
systems to make sure that the on-board port labeled 'Ethernet 1' always came
up as eth0, 'Ethernet 2' always as eth1, or something along those lines...

> It does seem that I am
> quickly digging deeper than I necessarily intended to go.

That happens to me just about daily... :)

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Jarod Wilson
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