Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:46:11 -0000 | From | Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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>> From the other side, how does having the ability to probe local hardware >> hurt? It should be cleanly seperable from the classical build process >> for the purists, and helpful to some (I think) significant portion of >> the userbase, particularly those folks who like to test bleeding edge >> stuff on a variety of hardware. I don't really understand the >> resistance to the idea of someone going out and implementing this. > > Right, and this is 95% possible even. Doing PCI stuff is rather easy > (since we've got it all mapped out even). The problem is the 100% > point-click-run goal that Eric has. > > The original sticking point was doing ISA (and other buses that are > _not_ autodetect friendly in a safe way).
& this has a seemingly obvious solution, which is, if the autoprobe stuff is selected, and, after presentation of the initial list of drivers, plus comments like 'Network card: none', 'Sound card: none', say 'We may have missed some stuff if you have an old computer, press Y if what we've detected doesn't find all your hardware', and if they press Y (only), select as modules every ISA driver except those, which when loaded on a system not containing the relevant card, can cause a hangup; thus deferring the autoprobing until boot time.
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