Jon Pennington wrote: Hi Jon,
I was sitting here at home, compiling a new kernel for my machine (2.3.48), and I thought to myself, "Jon, there's got to be a better way to do this than `make menuconfig' or `make xconfig'. The kernel source tree is a great thing, also a very *large* thing, and difficult to manage.
truly said. ;-)
I was just wondering if it would be possible to use something like the hwdetect utility to recommend a `safe' and an `aggressive' kernel configuration. `safe' would be no non-experimental code, and `aggressive' would have experimental options turned on, like support for the ALi and VIA Super-7 chipsets and USB/IEEE1394 options.
I don't know wether that's realy doable. There are so many options (i.e. network, routing, tunneling to speak of a few) that probably can't be guessed. Starting to think along your idea, I'd suggest to enhance "menuconfig / xconfig" in a way that a further choice "auto(detect)" appears were sensible / possible. This would solve the problem you metion below as well. Don't know how to do this, but I consider the value of something like this high. Juergen
The stock SuSE kernels are great, but a hobbiest like myself still wants to play with things, but may still not have the foggiest idea what VIA82CXXX support is for. That's where hwdetect (or the like) would come in handy; find the VIA82CXXX chipset on the motherboard, correlate it with a .config option, and offer it to the user. It's just a thought, but I figured that somebody might think the same thing ;).
What do *you* think? Is it worth slapping together?
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