[Bluewall] hi

[pancake]

> > > Thats all for now, i didnt try it on x86_64 yet, will do it soon.
> > Would be good to prepare and discuss a good default .config for the kernel.
> Ehm, we can put everything not-so-important into modules, i suppose.

Can you prepare a .config for this setup?

for the x86_64 support we must prepare a:
- modified debian-base of x86_64
- kernel for x86_64
- initrd for x86_64

I've written some scripts to build/prepare/update the bluewall ISO. It's hard to deploy ATM, 
but i'll try to reduce deps and publish these files on GIT, CVS or HTTP.

> > The current one have some problems depending on the hardware, and since
> > lot of stuff is compiled as a module, there's a lot of people that feel
> > annoying to "insmod" or "modprobe" everything to autodetect the network
> > card, etc.
> Do we need to autodetect *everything*? We sure do not care about sound
> and video, usb is needed for mice/keyboards only at the startup, pcmcia,
> bluetooth and some other things are not important, i think.

I think that the LiveCD must be able to run alone, I don't know if it's possible to build a single
kernel that runs everywhere since some ACPI/IRQ/DMA problems on newer motherboards and
stupid laptop manufacturers.

But would be nice to achieve this. IMHO autodetection must be reduced at maximum. I hate
to wait for hardware autodetection everytime I boot the PC. And hardware autodetection in some
laptops is know to be buggy and produce kernelpanics.

BTW I think it would be nice to provide a run-everywhere kernel, and another tuned kernel with
preemtive, ... for the end system.

> > I don't want to put a huge autodetection process on the Install-CD, but
> > maybe a small database of `lspci` strings and related modules with a proper
> > .config would be fine.
> We can grab network autodetect script from slackware :)

Is this a single script? I've no slackware, can you send/upload this script? Thanks!

> > The .config can be fetched from the /proc/config.gz or from the cd-rom.
> > 
> > Any volunteer? Any idea/discuss?
> 
> Not many volunteers, as i can see :)))))

hehe, we're not alone ;)

--pancake