In article <199808102228.SAA03030@jekyll.piermont.com> perry@piermont.com writes:
>You've said the right thing is to extensively hack autoconf. I have no
>idea how to do that. There is no documentation for autoconfig, and I
>don't have the ability to spend weeks learning how it works by reverse
>engineering. I have no confidence anyone else is going to do "the
>right thing" any time soon, either.

There is prior art for that. You can read the other free os sources and get
ideas on how to do this.

- You need to hack config not to compress the ioconf entries.
- You need to add a small line parser to the kernel.

christos