Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:47:29 +0100 | From | Giacomo Catenazzi <> | Subject | Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution |
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Michael Lazarou (ETL) wrote:
>>Not a problem. Autoconfiguration is made to help configuring >>the kernel, before to compile it. So you need a linux working >>machine (actually you can cross-compile). >> >>Our task is to allow user to compile a kernel, with the >>needed drivers, without the non used drivers. >> > > OK, well I guess I am a little confused. > > If I hit an autoconfigurator button then I would expect a kernel that > will boot and know everything there is to know about my machine.
Actually there is no yet 'autoconfigurator button'. I recommend to run a std configuration tool and to check the configuration before the kernel build phase.
> Without probing the hardware how will the autoconfigurator cope with > the hardware changing underneath it?
We probe the hardware (but in a soft manner). Better: we probe nothing, we ask kernel to give us the results of already done kernel probes. Thus we never hang, we never crash machine, no 10-15 reboots to install a new kernel. The good news: this is nearly enought.
Linux is magic: it can do infinite loops in 5 sec, but also it can configure automatically a new kernel without real hardware probes!.
giacomo
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