Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:35:49 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607101835.TAA24075@guava.blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199607101721.LAA23842@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 10, 96 11:21:15 am
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> Having worked with BSD/*nix systems since the mid-80's, as I understand > it GENERIC wasn't intened to be a 'minimal' kernel with as little wasted > space as possible, but a 'kitchen-sink' kernel which contained every > conceivable driver so that you could never had to build a custom kernel With this in mind, would it not make sense to have a fairly minimal kernel on the boot floppy, and include a larger, and more complete 'GENERIC' as part of the bindist? That way you get the best of both worlds. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ I'm a 'control' freak. But I quite like 'meta' too. ]ENTP
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