Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:58:33 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Universal debug macros. |
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Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes: > > > > > Something RedHat & co may want to consider doing is providing a basic > > > > kernel and have, as part of the install procedure or later, an > > > > automatic recompile and install kernel procedure. It could be > > > > automated very easily, and on all but the very slowest of machines, it > > > > really doesn't take that long. > > > > > > this completely not possible to do in regard of the end-users eyes. > > > > > > > Why not? > > slow !! end-user want to install a distribution fast !!! > > it need a lot to be friendly the compilation (ie: we cannot do only > launch of make xconfig, not everyone now which options to select), > what we can do is a detection of the module and recompile a kernel > with the detected module for recompilation but there is too much error > case that could not be handle. >
It's not that slow compared to a whole distro install, although you would of course want to do it *optionally*. You wouldn't want to get into every single option, of course, but I thought that was obvious (apparently not.) The drivers and stuff is the least of the problem -- there, you can use modules anyway.
-hpa
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