Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 21:17:06 +0200 | From | Marc Mutz <> | Subject | Re: Is kernel autoconfig possible? |
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Bill Ward wrote: > > Hello everyone. > I had an idea the other day that would require kernel autoconfig'ing > (at compile-time), so I was wondering... Would it be possible to include > a program in the kernel src tarball that could (after being compiled for > the hardware it's on) probe for hardware that the new kernel would > understand, but the old one doesn't? I don't know about the > implementation details of doing something like this, but I would imagine > that it would be quite non-trivial. > > Something like this would be _very_ nice for end-users (read: > non-techie's), and many distro's could probably make use of it in some > way or another (specifically, auto-updating the kernel (just nice gcc & > make to about 20... ;-) ) > Please get in touch with Steffen Evers and Riley Williams if you want to do such things and look in the kernel-list archives for the thread called 'script for compiling the kernel' (in reverse order :-). You may also want to check out how caldera manages their hardware recognition, however, I don't know how good that is.
Marc
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