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Author: Svante Signell
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 16:53 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 04/01/2016 16:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
> > I meant
> > > > 4) Let the installer build the kernel, depending on what the hardware
> > > > and
> > > > file systems being installed actually need.
>
>      Maybe Gentoo does this, although I'm not sure, but the philosophy
> is very different: they compile everything from source. And it doesn't
> install as smoothly as Devuan.
>
>      In Devuan it means something very unusual: the installer must first
> install gcc, generate a config file and compile the kernel. It is not an
> easy task to generate a working config for any hardware combination. The
> resulting kernel package would be local and couldn't undergo upgrades.


Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer being
installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the modules
should not be located on /usr, currently they are under /lib.