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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Why bind to LiveCD /proc before building initramfs ? Post 303001609 by hicksd8 on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 03:43:46 AM
Old 08-08-2017
I think that I understand your question. The 'Live CD' contains all commonly required drivers but those drivers are only loaded if the hardware is actually present. The 'Live CD' is designed so that it can boot on almost all hardware without extra drivers.
 

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DAHDI_HARDWARE(8)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 DAHDI_HARDWARE(8)

NAME
dahdi_hardware - Shows Dahdi hardware devices. SYNOPSIS
dahdi_hardware [-v][-x] OPTIONS
-v Verbose ouput - show spans used by each device etc. Currently only implemented for the Xorcom Astribank. -x Show disconnected Astribank unit, if any. DESCRIPTION
Show all dahdi hardware devices. Devices are recognized according to lists of PCI and USB IDs in Dahdi::Hardware::PCI.pm and Dahdi::Hardware::USB.pm . For PCI it is possible to detect by sub-vendor and sub-product ID as well. The first output column is the connector: a bus specific field that shows where this device is. The second field shows which driver should handle the device. a "-" sign marks that the device is not yet handled by this driver. A "+" sign means that the device is handled by the driver. For the Xorcom Astribank (and in the future: for other Dahdi devices) some further information is provided from the driver. Those extra lines always begin with spaces. Example output: Without drivers loaded: usb:001/002 xpp_usb- e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware usb:001/003 xpp_usb- e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware pci:0000:01:0b.0 wctdm- e159:0001 Wildcard TDM400P REV H With drivers loaded, without -v: usb:001/002 xpp_usb+ e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware usb:001/003 xpp_usb+ e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware pci:0000:01:0b.0 wctdm+ e159:0001 Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F With drivers loaded, with -v: usb:001/002 xpp_usb+ e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware LABEL=[usb:123] CONNECTOR=usb-0000:00:1d.7-1 XBUS-00/XPD-00: FXS Span 2 XBUS-00/XPD-10: FXS Span 3 XBUS-00/XPD-20: FXS Span 4 XBUS-00/XPD-30: FXS Span 5 usb:001/003 xpp_usb+ e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware LABEL=[usb:4567] CONNECTOR=usb-0000:00:1d.7-4 XBUS-01/XPD-00: FXS Span 6 XPP-SYNC XBUS-01/XPD-10: FXO Span 7 XBUS-01/XPD-20: FXO Span 8 XBUS-01/XPD-30: FXO Span 9 pci:0000:01:0b.0 wctdm+ e159:0001 Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F perl v5.14.2 2009-04-20 DAHDI_HARDWARE(8)
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