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Self-identifying devices devices are those that are recognized by the PROMs/BIOS when the system boots. This is specifically for PCI devices. For devices that do not identify themselves to PROM/BIOS, the OS has no information about them and hence has to be specified in conf file. For example, “driver.conf” is a must for a pseudo device.
