[ale] eth numbering change

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Mon Feb 13 17:05:47 EST 2017


On 02/13/2017 04:50 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> I keep swearing (more than usual) I'm gonna build by blasted tool called
> "shoehorn" to help squeeze into a tight boot. The basic idea is to PXE
> boot a generic kernel with EVERYTHING as modules, probe all hardware,
> report back to a master server the list of found hardware, it assembles
> a new kernel with nothing but what's needed or points to an existing
> kernel, set's up a perm PXE boot environment based on MACs and then
> provides the slimmest kernel and initramfs possible.

That would be really cool.  Probably could retool the kernel's existing
make localmodconfig to take your report data instead of the kernel build
machine's data.



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