Re: A newbie's view

[Seth Vidal <skvidal@new-era.com>]

> Is there anything in the current kernel architecture that makes it impossible to
> distribute vmlinux and a directory full of precompiled modules; when support for
> new hardware comes out, you download new modules to put in the directory, when a
> new version of the kernel comes out, you download a new vmlinux file, replace
> the old one and reboot?

this isn't a dumb questions at all tom.
But most distributions do this now (to some extent)
you can get new-kernels from redhat in rpm just install them.
Same with debian. They come with a huge mass of modules and allow you to
play with your configuration (to some extent) until you get it right.
2.2.0 (if I'm not completely mistaken) has module sound now so you can
compile all the soundcards and kind of mess at it until it gets the right
one.

check out redhat's or debian's kernel packages. They do just what I think
you are looking for.

Does this sound correct to everyone else.

-sv

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