Re: GNU Mach: enabling all (working) device drivers by default?

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:37:50PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> What are people's feelings about having all (working) device drivers
> enabled by default when configuring GNU Mach?

Michael, Richard, Samuel: thanks for the quick input.  I can understand
your concerns and would like to propose adding the following to the
configure options:

#v+
  --disable-default-device-drivers
                          have all device drivers disabled that can be
                          disabled and would otherwise have been enabled by
                          default; then use the `--enable-*' options to enable
                          only those you actually want to have enabled
#v-

Does that sound alright?


Another issue: I intend to remove all the device driver name aliases from
i386/linux/configure, for example morph...

#v+
[...]
  --enable-de100          enable driver alias de100 for depca
  --enable-de101          enable driver alias de101 for depca
  --enable-de200          enable driver alias de200 for depca
  --enable-de201          enable driver alias de201 for depca
  --enable-de202          enable driver alias de202 for depca
  --enable-de210          enable driver alias de210 for depca
  --enable-de422          enable driver alias de422 for depca
[...]
  --enable-depca          enable driver depca
[...]
#v-

... into...

#v+
[...]
  --enable-depca          enable driver depca (de100, de101, de200, de201,
                          de202, de210, de422)
[...]
#v-

Any comments or objections with respect to that?


Regards,
 Thomas

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