Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:32:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607100732.JAA09316@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <12325.836972831@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 9, 96 09:27:11 pm"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > After speaking with David on the phone, I decided to remove the > following entries from GENERIC: > > sio2 > sio3 > lpt2 > mcd1 > lnc1 > > I would also like to remove: > > ed1 > lp1 Only two arguments here: . GENERIC is known to run on many installed machines, and while you are right that it is possible (and desirable) to compile your kernel from scratch once you are installed, many people decide not to do it, for various reasons. (Among them, you have to sacrify 20 MB of space for a kernel compilation, which is far too much for someone with only a 100 MB disk.) . Your above changes will at best save 10 KB of kernel size, and at worst not even a single byte in the executable. They don't eliminate a driver, all they save is just a few entries in the struct sc_foo sc_foo[] tables which are in the kernel bss anyway. So don't expect a revolution in what will fit on your installation floppy. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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