> There really is not a whole lot preventing the "install" script
> on a driver cdrom from building the kernel module from source.
> It can even pop up a little "building driver module" dialogue
> with a cute little thermometer moving along as the thing builds
> itself. :-)
>
> The one thing preventing that would be if no compiler tools at
> all are installed on the user's machine. And that would be
> the one issue preventing this scheme from working.
They can deal with this too by providing a statically
linked gcc 2.7.2.3 on the cd. A cd
has room for quite a lot besides a few hw drivers. :-)
Helge Hafting
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