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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:22:53 -0500
From:      Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
To:        Jim King <jim@jimking.net>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, opentrax@email.com, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, roman@harmonic.co.il, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support)
Message-ID:  <3A636A2D.2C731772@cvzoom.net>
References:  <83645.979588312@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com> <01d201c07f38$76d52470$524c8486@jking>

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Jim King wrote:

> Just a suggestion:  Distribute 3 or 4 kernels and let the user pick which
> one they want install.  Have one be like the current state of GENERIC, one
> tuned for servers (with RAID drivers, etc.), one tuned for modern
> workstations (sound, etc.).

Or, only statically link the "essential" drivers into the kernel. 
"Luxury" items such as pcm could be loaded via a KLD, as someone else
suggested.


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