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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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