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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:12:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC
Message-ID:  <199607101912.VAA11213@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607101721.LAA23842@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jul 10, 96 11:21:15 am"

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As Nate Williams wrote:

> Making folks build their own custom kernels is a step in the wrong
> direction.  We should be providing 'out-of-the-box' solutions solutions
> for them in the same manner as pre-built ports.

I will fully support this opinion as soon as we have pageable kernel
memory.  Right now, the kitchen-sink kernel wastes a few hundred pages
of valuable physical memory for the average user, i think that's a
very high price.

-- 
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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