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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some basic questions
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:34:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110813003407.GA23720@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313193543.14425.15.camel@localhost>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 05:59:03PM -0600, Frank W. Miller wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I apologize if these questions seem trivial or are document somewhere
> that I haven't searched as yet.
> 
> I'm essentially trying to build a new distro type.  I currently have
> kernel 2.6.39.2 booting from a USB stick.  The kernel comes up using the
> Intel framebuffer kms in its proper resolution and I have some basic
> graphics routines that allow me to output as desired to the screen, and
> NOTHING ELSE.

As you are "building from scratch", why not take a look at the
description of udev in the Linux From Scratch distro?  It should answer
all of these questions for you already.

Have you tried that?

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-13  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-12 23:59 Some basic questions Frank W. Miller
2011-08-13  0:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-08-13  0:50 ` Frank W. Miller
2011-08-13  3:19 ` Allin Cottrell
2011-08-13  3:33 ` Frank W. Miller
2011-08-13 18:20 ` John Lumby
2011-08-14  3:25 ` Frank W. Miller
2011-08-14  3:33 ` Frank W. Miller
2011-08-14  6:44 ` Allin Cottrell

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