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Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Nov 13 23:52:50 UTC 2008
Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said:
> (Not to mention that attempting
> to get consistent motherboard or slot position out of BIOSes across
> all manufacturers is a boatload of fun.)
So, we *do* at this point have the /sys/bus/pci/slots directory,
which is maintained by the ACPI PCI slot driver. But, just to give
an example -
On my laptop:
$ ls /sys/bus/pci/slots/
1
This corresponds to the expresscard slot, IIRC.
On a random (recent, Core2Duo) mid-tower:
$ ls /sys/bus/pci/slots/
<nothing>
despite the fact that the box actually has three slots. So, not only
does this not help with identifying onboard cards/adapters, for *actual*
slots, you're still at the whim of the ACPI bios authors to put the
info there.
Bill
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