From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Oct 25 18:23:06 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAD916A4CE
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:23:06 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (alpha.siliconlandmark.com
	[209.69.98.4])	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA81F43D2F
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:23:05 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com)
Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (andy@localhost [127.0.0.1])
	i9PIN3Pa051616;	Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com)
Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)i9PIN3eF051613;
	Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com)
X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing
	-bs
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p0611043abda24d6ecffe@[128.113.24.47]>
Message-ID: <20041025141556.I42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
References: <417960C2.8040007@freebsd.org>
	<20041022194008.GA23778@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
	<p06110423bd9f1b6312ed@[128.113.24.47]>
	<41796D6D.7000108@freebsd.org> <41799315.70201@elischer.org>
	<41799396.9090307@freebsd.org> <20041023082926.GE45235@ip.net.ua>
	<p06110433bda0a9094720@[128.113.24.47]>
	<p0611043abda24d6ecffe@[128.113.24.47]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Breaking up kernel config files (GENERIC)
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:23:06 -0000


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 2:24 AM -0400 10/25/04, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
> So, I would expect "categories" to only handle simple cases like that,
> and we would leave the lines for things like 'da' and 'scbus' just the
> way they currently are.
>
> Right now I'm just tossing out some ideas of what we'd really like to
> see.  I think that if all we do is split up all the per-architecture
> GENERIC kernels into smaller files, then we will end up creating *more*
> work for most people who want to create a smaller kernel config. I
> suspect we can come up with something better than that.

What I would really like to see is a mechanism for recognizing hardware 
(arch, cpu family, scsi, ide, sound, firewire and net) that is currently 
in the system and generating a barebones configuration file with just the 
results.

What happens when this "auto-probing" doesn't recognize the hardware that 
you have? Well, what are you forced to do now? :-)

Regards,
Andy

| Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
| Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >