On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, James Pearson wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?
Keith Roberts wrote:
Doesn't the kernel probe the machine's hardware at boot up time, and if it finds your soundcard, load the appropriate driver for it?
I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence is this done?
Hi James. Good question. I can't say for sure, but I guess it's some sort of h/w detection code in the kernel. This may be of some help:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linuxboot/index.html
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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