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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> I simply don't understand what you are trying to build and why it is hard.

Don't understand it?  Download it, follow the directions, and see.

It's not that hard.  Given Giacomo's table of probes it only took me about
two days to get it 85% of the way there.  The remaining 15% is partly 
issues with rulebase bugs that it exposes, and partly issues with what
to do about the possibility of ISA hardware that is not directly probeable.
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