[haiku] Re: Drivers.List
- From: Mattia Tristo <mattia.tristo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 19:36:14 +0200
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
>
>
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