Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:50:53 -0500 | From | Bill Ward <> | Subject | Re: Is kernel autoconfig possible? |
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Ok, maybe I didn't explain myself very well... I'm not talking about boot-time configuration of hardware. I'm not talking about hard-coding irq's, dma's, and io addr.'s into the kernel. I'm talking about compile-time configuration of the kernel such that it will add support for hardware as support becomes available (i.e. an upgrade to 2.4 would go something like: it would probe for supported hardware and see USB, which is not supported under 2.2). plug-and-pray has nothing to do with that, other than for detecting the hardware, which could prolly be done w/o it anyway (totally unqualified comment, but it seems it could be possible). What this is for (maybe I can shed a little light on what I'm thinking...) is: say I have a novice user distro. Say they need/want a kernel upgrade (let's not worry about why or how they need/want it). Most novice users won't be able to do a kernel upgrade themselves, so I want to do something where the kernel can be auto-configured, then installed, w/o the user having to do anything more than just tell it to do it. I'll explain it in more detail if you'd like in a later post.
Anyways, remember to CC me if you reply.
-- andyw
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