From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22256 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 02:44:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3147 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 02:44:08 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: kumba@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 02:43:50 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310050828.34578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <3F7F6307.1080001@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7F6307.1080001@gentoo.org> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310050244.05634.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: f166a9b4-f51c-48f0-9f65-4adb8874a54a X-Archives-Hash: 5f273673ab9664e5f8f1afa0285f43d4 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:17 am, Kumba wrote: > x86 is *way* too diverse an architecture to configure solely through USE > Flags. How can it be set so we know whether someone has a VIA IDE > chipset and not an SiS, or how someone have a RealTek 8139-based NIC > card, and whether they need the old RealTek driver, or the newer one? Last I checked, these configs could be changed after it is compiled. If it = is=20 impossible to do, then how is it that RedHat and all the binary distros hav= e=20 a single kernel for x86? =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/f4VvZl/BHdU+lYMRAs93AJ9hEiNVrUQtiSMki8oMA83SPcy/GwCeLr5R V7F/3UkDh/OJa/Yaex2QaKU=3D =3D7CvU =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list