An interesting idea for you techies

Jason jkenner@mindspring.com
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:59:40 -0700


Jim wrote:
> 
> Since Linux now does a very good job of detecting the hardware that is
> present on a system, wouldnt it be cool if someone wrote a utility that
> would recompile the kernel with support for only the devices detected?

Just make sure aformentioned utility moves /vmlinuz to /vmlinuz.old,
and allows the user a sane chance at loading the old kernel with lilo
:)

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