[ale] eth numbering change

[DJ-Pfulio]

> If we could only get the HARDWARE side of the boot process faster! I've got some
> very new, very modern server gear that from power on to Linux boot start is
> measured in MINUTES (I'm looking at you IBM!). Why oh why can the BIOS store the
> IDs of the device tree and do a fast "give me your ID scan", ok nothing changed
> so send back an init command to everything to run in parallel.

You pay IBM extra for all their HW checking and validation. You do realize that?
Better to find an issue at boot than have corrupted data.

> 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.

How is this different from Gentoo?  ;) running away ...