Re: Potato now stable
> I recall reading a few months ago about a plan to merge ALL of the
> existing hardware detection routines into one lump, in order to
> consolidate work and effort. The proposal was met with acceptance by many
> (if not all) of the major developers (Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, Turbo)
>
> please post if you do find a link to it.
reply to my own request:
It was on this list I saw it (gee, how nice), and Dan Shearer
(dan@linuxcare.com) was organizing it.
Wichert replied to his request for help and said he'd love to see this
happen, and pointed Dan to boot-floppies as the group to work with for
Debian. Dan replied with a long post quoting his plan and more.
the thread was in May 2000,
http://www.debian.org/List-Archives/debian-boot-0005/msg00471.html
starts the thread
and
http://www.debian.org/List-Archives/debian-boot-0005/msg00482.html
contains Dan's proposal
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