Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is kernel autoconfig possible? | From | Oystein Viggen <> | Date | 23 Jul 1999 15:42:06 +0200 |
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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... ;-) ) >
...And then we could get hardware vendors to make their hardware in such a way that the OS could decide which IRQ's and DMA's and stuff that these pieces of hardware should use. Then we could give it a catchy name to get people to use it. How about 'Plug and Play'? :)
Oystein, who likes his occasional bit of trolling -- If it ain't broke, don't break it.
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