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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:19:38 -0500
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From: "Dr. Lonnie Cumberland, PhD" <lonnie@outstep.com>
Subject: Any type of HAL for Alpine?
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Hi All,

The current project that I am working on will be a small footprint RAM 
based system based upon Alpine Xen and will generally boot from a either 
a small sized ISO or PXE booting.

As this system will be meant to run on many different desktop systems, I 
am wondering if there is any type of HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) so 
that upon booting the system can be analyzed quickly and any needed 
drivers could be loaded and persisted for subsequent boots.  This all 
comes from the concerns in that some systems are desktops with wireless 
adapters or some particular graphics cards, for examples, that might be 
needed.

I was thinking about how it might be best to try to be able to provide 
those drives while at the same time keeping the total footprint and 
ultra-lightweight as possible which is a key goal in this effort.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Lonnie