Re: [gentoo-dev] Drivers/Portage

[Hasan Khalil]

Me too! Me too! (See below for inline responses).
	-Hasan

Martin Owens wrote:

> it's not about auto detection / auto configuration. it's about information
> gathering and resources

I wholeheartedly agree with this -- setting up a system that would tell 
us about our hardware automatically would be sweet. Whether we use that 
system to later then autoconfigure it is a different story, and should 
obviously be a disable-able feature. But what's important is me being 
able to plug something in, and finding out right away if anyone else has 
ever been able to get the hardware to work under Linux <my version 
here>, or at all under any Linux version, perhaps with user comments on 
how they got it to work. I envision this much like a wiki (I don't mean 
to say that a wiki is the answer!) on which our 'autodetect' program 
looks up information for a particular piece of hardware.

> The most important part is creating/generating unique id's for hardware that
> you can match the information up to.

Doesn't this more or less exist with pretty much any hardware interface 
(PCI vendor/device id's come to mind for PCI, etc.)?

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