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Subject: Re: "Next Generation" kernel configuration?
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In message: <1090393301.2180.77.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com>
            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