Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery --the elegant solution) | From | Reid Hekman <> | Date | 15 Jan 2002 05:35:05 -0600 |
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On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 04:40, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Normal users should _never_ have to use > kernel.org trees.
Yikes! Sayings about never saying "never" aside... I should think the goal is for everyone to be able to use kernel.org trees with reasonable expectations. I'd like to see the day when distros can include a pristine tree. I don't expect it, and the need for outside trees isn't going away, but I'd like to see kernel.org be the canonical Linux for more production systems, development starts, and non-i386 arch's.
With respect to Aunt Tillie, hardware discovery and kernel configuration are separate issues. Can't the hardware probes be a separate package? The autoconfigurator I think will be useful, but can't the configurator just be dependent on outside packages like other functionality is dependent on isdn4k-utils or iptables?
Regards, Reid "thinking this is getting offtopic" Hekman -- Current: reid.hekman@ndsu.nodak.edu Permanent: hekman@acm.org
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