From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 11 10:51:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA22265 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22253 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA29411; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:44:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607111744.KAA29411@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:44:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, michaelv@HeadCandy.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <7654.837073584@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 11, 96 01:26:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > This is Unix, the most sophisticated OS available. It should support > > use of fallback drivers and dynamic loading of replacement devices > > as needed, so if they can't or won't build their own kernel, it will > > have no effect on their ability to run the system, one way or another. > > Actually, it's more like: "This is Unix, the most sophisticated OS > available. You should never ever need to even build a kernel for it > since every conceivable feature is either loaded dynamically as an LKM > or settable at runtime with sysctl(3). Those few features which fall > between the cracks, like serial console selection or netbooting, > should be boot-time options (either on the prompt or in the "info > area" of the boot blocks)." Well, yes. But I was going to let them figure out they didn't need to rebuild kernels on their own. Now you've spoiled the "Aha!" experience for everyone. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.