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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: kumba@g.o, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:44:09
Message-Id: 200310050244.05634.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree by Kumba
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4 On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:17 am, Kumba wrote:
5 > x86 is *way* too diverse an architecture to configure solely through USE
6 > Flags. How can it be set so we know whether someone has a VIA IDE
7 > chipset and not an SiS, or how someone have a RealTek 8139-based NIC
8 > card, and whether they need the old RealTek driver, or the newer one?
9 Last I checked, these configs could be changed after it is compiled. If it is
10 impossible to do, then how is it that RedHat and all the binary distros have
11 a single kernel for x86?
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