Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:20:27AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> > > Have you thought about writing a translator for /dev itself, rather
> > > than using a script to populate a directory? devfs the Hurd way.
> >
> > Certainly we have. I think this is ultimately the Right Thing, in
> > fact.
>
> I've just wondered myself about it, but I am not sure how this would be
> done best.
Something I would like is complete autodetection of hardware. It'd be
cool if a /dev translator could read /usr/share/discover/pci.lst (or
whatever) and add subnodes with translators for those devices.
Alternatively, some tool like discover could be ported to the Hurd to do
this to a /dev filesystem.
In the long run I'd like to be able to take a bootable CD with the Hurd on
it, boot it in any modern i386 computer and get a complete configured
system with a configured X server, mouse, keyboard, scanner, ...
Then, with some networked filesystem, we've got a truly mobile office :)
--
Niklas
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