<html><head></head><body><div>On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 17:05 -0500, Phil Turmel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 02/13/2017 04:50 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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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.
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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.
</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Looking at a database for local machine config for inventory reasons. This is useful for large environments mostly.</div><div><br></div><div>I hadn't thought of the localmodconfig. Must test with a pile of odd crap I have access to.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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