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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:30:25 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Justin Carlson <justincarlson@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:30:46PM -0500, Justin Carlson wrote:

> 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).

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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