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How many is too many?
How many is too many?
Posted Oct 13, 2005 16:49 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)Parent article: How many is too many?
I think that the solution to his problem would really be a reference userspace for the kernel, which doesn't do anything particularly useful but checks whether the kernel is supporting all of the hardware and reports how it is doing so. Then Dell can test their machines with that, and tell distros what they have to do to run on Dell machines. Of course, this wouldn't guarantee that everything would work, because the distro could fail to provide a way to invoke the desired operation from userspace, but that's likely to be unrelated to the hardware configuration.
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How many is too many?
Posted Oct 14, 2005 3:46 UTC (Fri) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link]
Not to mention the fact that that would be a fantastic tool in its own right! Use the output to make Dell(TM)-Certified Kernels (maybe not...shades of WHQL); user the output to develop modular drivers for Dell-specific hardware (better); use the output to feed improvements back to kernel developers to refine support for Dell-specific hardware before it hits the market (best)...
How many is too many?
Posted Oct 15, 2005 2:21 UTC (Sat) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385) [Link]
...where "kernel" includes the udev, hotplug, hibernate, dm-setup, and X server packages.
A lot of stuff has been pushed out of the kernel and into the distro.