From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 9:41:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24BC15477 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA08347; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:41:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:41:39 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199912151741.MAA08347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Donn Miller Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Kernel config utility In-Reply-To: <38578E57.BE6F50E1@cvzoom.net> References: <38578E57.BE6F50E1@cvzoom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > thing that was divided into two panes. On the left would be > LINT. Here, we would have icons representing the various > devices. This is actually a really cool idea, although it needs a bit of refinement, and we would need to start providing and maintaining a database which describes the drivers in more detail. You don't want to start with LINT, though; you want to start with GENERIC plus a few of the more common options. (Then provide a menu selection of the form ``Show all available devices and options''.) Icons are probably not the right user interface. I'd suggest something like Windows's ``hardware manager'' (in the System control panel). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message