On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Tony Li <tony...@tony.li> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Lars Engels <lars.eng...@0x20.net> wrote: > > > It _is_ easy. But having a nice graphical tool which draws a pretty > table of > > GENERIC and NOTES together with useful information about the possible > options > > and devices would be a handy thing to have IMHO. > > Let's make FreeBSD userfriendly :-) > > > Side note: I agree that we would really, really like FreeBSD more user > friendly. > > However, is kernel configuration where we really want to start? Just how > much of the user base reconfigures their kernels, anyway? Wouldn't effort > be better spent on making normal installation, maintenance and deployment > clean and easy? >
Mostly off-topic for this thread, but improving the boot process to auto-detect hardware and auto-load kernel modules would be really nice. That way, GENERIC would be very small, with just the basic frameworks required (CAM, USB, PCI, TCP/IP, etc), and all the actual drivers would be loaded from modules. That would remove almost all requirements to compile a custom kernel in the first place. :) Granted, changing "options" in the kernel would require recompilation, but general use and hardware changes wouldn't. Most likely not a GSoC project. But it's still a nice dream. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
