GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Ollivier Robert]

According to Freddie Cash on Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:32:11AM -0700:
> Mostly off-topic for this thread, but improving the boot process to
> auto-detect hardware and auto-load kernel modules would be really nice.
> That way, GENERIC would be very small, with just the basic frameworks
> required (CAM, USB, PCI, TCP/IP, etc), and all the actual drivers would be
> loaded from modules.  That would remove almost all requirements to compile
> a custom kernel in the first place.  :)
> 
> Granted, changing "options" in the kernel would require recompilation, but
> general use and hardware changes wouldn't.

That's what Solaris has been doing for years and yes, it does make a lot of sense.

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