On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:05:32PM +0200, Niklas H?glund wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:20:27AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Someone wrote: > > > > Have you thought about writing a translator for /dev itself, rather > > > > than using a script to populate a directory? devfs the Hurd way. > > > > > > Certainly we have. I think this is ultimately the Right Thing, in > > > fact. > > > > I've just wondered myself about it, but I am not sure how this would be > > done best. > > Something I would like is complete autodetection of hardware. It'd be > cool if a /dev translator could read /usr/share/discover/pci.lst (or > whatever) and add subnodes with translators for those devices. > > Alternatively, some tool like discover could be ported to the Hurd to do > this to a /dev filesystem.
We should have user-space device drivers which live in /dev. Then a lot of things are possible you probably aren't even thinking of. > In the long run I'd like to be able to take a bootable CD with the Hurd on > it, boot it in any modern i386 computer and get a complete configured > system with a configured X server, mouse, keyboard, scanner, ... <AOL>Me too!</AOL> It's just that a lot of work needs to be done for this. > Then, with some networked filesystem, we've got a truly mobile office :) Yes, distributed computing is cool. :) Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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