> I recall reading a few months ago about a plan to merge ALL of the > existing hardware detection routines into one lump, in order to > consolidate work and effort. The proposal was met with acceptance by many > (if not all) of the major developers (Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, Turbo) > > please post if you do find a link to it.
reply to my own request: It was on this list I saw it (gee, how nice), and Dan Shearer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) was organizing it. Wichert replied to his request for help and said he'd love to see this happen, and pointed Dan to boot-floppies as the group to work with for Debian. Dan replied with a long post quoting his plan and more. the thread was in May 2000, http://www.debian.org/List-Archives/debian-boot-0005/msg00471.html starts the thread and http://www.debian.org/List-Archives/debian-boot-0005/msg00482.html contains Dan's proposal