From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 17 2: 6:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5338037B6F0; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 02:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13E6qO-000P92-00; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:05:44 +0200 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:05:44 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm fixing the build/install kernel target Message-ID: <20000717110544.A96514@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:05:38AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 2000-07-15 (11:05), Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I just got through a similar discussion in NetBSD, where somebody wants to > take the probe results of a GENERIC kernel and emit a specific config file for > the hardware configuration just found. > > This would be an *excellent* summer project for a grad student somewhere. > Anyone know someone who's got time on their hands and an itch to do something > valuable like this and generate a paper? options SYSCTL_DEVICES should be able to get this information already, by exporting newbus information to sysctl. My (not-yet-committed) changes to SYSCTL_DEVICES adds irq, drq, iomem, and so forth to the information exported, if that's necessary. What other stuff would be necessary? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message