Thanks to all Mattia 2010/5/3 Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> > > On 2010-05-03 at 15:05:57 [+0200], Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Mattia Tristo <mattia.tristo@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > What about to make the installer generate a Drivers.List in /haiku/etc > > > with > > > the list of drivers to boot, the drivers have been detected at install > > > time > > > and an option in the boot manager to ignore that list and try all the > > > drivers amd another option to recreate the list. Do you think it is a > good > > > idea? > > > > What would that accomplish? Haiku always tries all drivers anyways. > > From what I understand, the hardware<->driver mapping mechanism is improved > a > lot with the "new driver architecture". So unnecessarily asking a driver if > it supports a certain piece of hardware will not be a problem anymore once > many more drivers are ported over. In any case, we don't seem to have > enough > drivers for this to be a problem at all at the moment. > > Best regards, > -Stephan > >