HardwareActivation
Revision 1 as of 2005-10-06 18:48:47
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Created: Date(2005-10-06T18:48:47Z) by JaneWeideman
Priority: NeedsPriority
People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond
Contributors: JaneWeideman, ScottJamesRemnant
Interested:ScottJamesRemnant
Status: UbzSpecification, BrainDump (then DraftSpecification then EditedSpecification then ApprovedSpecification), DistroSpecification
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- BoF sessions: none yet
Summary
Our current boot process has parts that rely on certain pieces of hardware being available, such as networking, bluetooth, sound and printers. We should instead provide a means to activate these when the hardware is detected rather than assuming it exists, and move the startup scripts into activation scripts instead.
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Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues