Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Findlay" <> | Subject | Linux Device Drivers | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:00:30 +1000 |
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2722.2800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000>I have an idea which some of you might not like, but would make linux heaps easier to use. Could the developers design a new system of device driver installation. The current method is much to hard for the average computer user. It would be much easier if you had a system whereby you download a binary executable for the device you wish to install on your PC. When you run it it would automatically install the driver, with no configuration necessary. It could ask for IRQ or IO, but you shouldn't have to go through config files to do this.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000>I have a few ideas on how this stuff could be done, but I'm not an expert kernel hacker, so someone else would have to do it. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000>Please CC me if you reply to this message.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150045505-30032000>David Findlay</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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