From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:09:49 -0400 Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.108]:58759 "EHLO femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:09:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3CE127.33A89C9E@home.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:12:23 -0700 From: John Golubenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: John Nilsson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > Features I would like in the kernel: > > 1: Make the whole insmod-rmmod tingie a kernel internal so they could be > > trigged before rootmount. > > Already there. In fact Red Hat uses it for the scsi devices. That is what > initrd is for. > > > 2: Compile time optimization options in Make menuconfig > > such as ? > > > 3: Lilo/grub config in make menuconfig > > make bzlilo does the lilo install - what else would you expect there > > > 4: make bzImage && make modules && make modules install && cp > > arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/'uname -r' something inside make menuconfig > > So really you want an outside GUI tool that lets you reconfigure build and > install kernels. Yeah I'd agree with that. Someone just needs to write the > killer gnome/kde config tool. I've got C code for parsing/loading config.in > files and deducing the dependancy constraints if anyone ever wants to try > and write such a tool 8) > > > 5: Better support for toshiba computers... well try =) > > modprobe toshiba and look at http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba/ > > > 6: Wouldn't it be easier for svgalib/framebuffer/GGI/X11 and others if the > > graphiccard drivers where kernel modules? > > No. > > > 8: A way to change kernel without rebooting. I have no diskdrive or cddrive > > in my laptop so I often do drastic things when I install a new distribution. > > Thats actually an incredibly hard problem to solve. The only people who do > this level of stuff are some of the telephony folks, and the expensive > tandem non-stop boxes. > > Alan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Could you please send me that peace of code to parse/loading config.in, It would be interesting thing to do. Thanks, John.