Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:42:55 -0500 | From | Bill Ward <> | Subject | Is kernel autoconfig possible? |
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Hello everyone. I had an idea the other day that would require kernel autoconfig'ing (at compile-time), so I was wondering... Would it be possible to include a program in the kernel src tarball that could (after being compiled for the hardware it's on) probe for hardware that the new kernel would understand, but the old one doesn't? I don't know about the implementation details of doing something like this, but I would imagine that it would be quite non-trivial.
Something like this would be _very_ nice for end-users (read: non-techie's), and many distro's could probably make use of it in some way or another (specifically, auto-updating the kernel (just nice gcc & make to about 20... ;-) )
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-- andyw
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