From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 20:35:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D5B14C32 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09833; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:08:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:08:55 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jesse Tilly Cc: Ben Smithurst , John Brooks , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Leave In Kernel? In-Reply-To: <016201bf5341$06618fe0$0301a8c0@lothlorien.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Jesse Tilly wrote: > > > John Brooks wrote: > > > > > I am building a custom kernel for a colocated email, ftp, & web > > > server. Since there will never be anything connected to any of > > > the serial or parallel ports, is there any compelling reason to > > > leave them in the kernel? Will pulling them out have any > > > detrimental repurcussions someplace else? > > > > I don't think so. One of my machines doesn't have any serial ports > > in the kernel, and I'm sure I've run machines without parallel > > ports in the past. > > > > None of my machines run with serial or parallel ports and everything > related has been commented in the kernel configs. No problems, and > plenty of free IRQs for network cards! Leaving out the printer isn't so bad, but i'm very annoyed when a customer comments out a serial port because then it becomes pretty rough if a network appliance of thiers needs a serial hookup. It's also pretty useful for running a getty on and logging in via serial. serial ports are useful. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message