On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote: > Andre Guibert de Bruet said: >> What I would really like to see is a mechanism for recognizing hardware >> (arch, cpu family, scsi, ide, sound, firewire and net) that is currently >> in the system and generating a barebones configuration file with just the >> results. > > I've thought about something like this. I'm sure some of us use our own > "semi-automated" generation method of just doing something like dmesg | > awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/:.*$//' | sort -u. I generally do something like > this anytime I'm given a box and told to assimilate it to FreeBSD. I just > take the output of this and use it as a base for what modifications I have > to do to GENERIC. I'm sure someone could whip up a sed/awk script to do > something like this pretty easily. A more complicated approach would > involve actual hardware probing, generating dependency trees, compile time > optimizations, etc. The dmesg approach works well for devices but doesn't fare too well with "options" unless you get into some really creative scripting. The approach I was thinking about would make extensive use of the hw and dev sysctl MIBs. I should have something that "works", tonight... Regards, Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >Received on Mon Oct 25 2004 - 17:18:56 UTC
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