Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: autoconfiguring kernel ? | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:59:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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I think this is in the realm of the Plug-and-Play project. Though the immediate objective is to support PnP hardware, the ultimate goal is a system capable of self configuration (with user overrides of course).
See URL http://www.redhat.com/pnp/
Note that this will require a _TREMENDOUS_ amount of effort.
> 1. How difficult would it be to have a self-configuring kernel as an > option? What I imagine is that one runs a program to probe the existing > hardware, load the appropriate drivers, configure the appropriate > modules, etc., give the developer a report of the proposed configuration > with options to change things, and then make an appropriate kernel. It > may be, e.g. that certain configurations of drivers work better together > than others. At present, each system administrator has to try this or > that to tune his or her system. This should always be one of the > options, but some people might like to get the benefit of others > experience with auto-configuring kernels. > > 2. An extension of the above would be autoconfiguring installations and > upgrades. Again, only as an option. One of the problems with other > attempts to automate is that they take control away from the > systems-administrator. I don't think that this should not be done > without very good reasons. > > I would be interested in follow-ups to these ideas. > > Thanks, >
-- Andrew E. Mileski -- mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net http://www.redhat.com/~aem/
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