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From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Crazy idea... or a new project?
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:06:54 +0100
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I was talking about booting a kernel with
the bare minimum to be able to run a couple of
user programs to link a new kernel. Then reboot.
But perhaps not a good idea. Because
at least IDE and ether drivers should be in place.

rob pike wrote:
> 
> > Another way could be to be able to link the kernel
> > with device drivers before loading it, and keep
> > the kernel just with devices used. I think that
> > could be done by making each driver provide a
> > (user) program to check if the device is there,
> > and linking a second kernel depending on what's
> > there.
> 
> You don't have a user program running when you're trying
> to boot the kernel.
> 
> -rob