Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:12:15 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com Cc: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Next Generation" kernel configuration? Message-ID: <20040721.121215.133913328.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <1090393301.2180.77.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> References: <XFMail.20040720205341.conrads@cox.net> <1090393301.2180.77.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com>
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Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> writes:
: As an initial starting point for 'preloading' any menubased kernel
: configurator, could the file /var/run/dmesg.boot be usefully parsed as
: a list of 'this is what is actually installed in this box, what else do
: you want to add?" Of course any output developed on a run of the
: configurator would/could/should be scanned as well to include answers to
: the question.."What did I include last time?"
if devd could map, somehow, the pnp info into drivers to load, that
would solve this problem.
warner
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