Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:43:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Next Generation" kernel configuration? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040722064340.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040721.121215.133913328.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On 21-Jul-2004 M. Warner Losh wrote: > 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 Interesting ideas. Saving all this stuff in my "suggestion box". :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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