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Date:      Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:09:11 -0600
From:      Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)
Message-ID:  <437105E7.6070605@123.com.sv>
In-Reply-To: <20051108195026.GR775@funkthat.com>
References:  <120ef0530511041210s6d3dbee8pc2db36129b44be2c@mail.gmail.com>	<436BCA7B.6060700@voidmain.net> <4370D0A9.4030707@freebsd.org> <20051108195026.GR775@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney wrote:

>GENERIC is already so large, that if you want/need a smaller kernel,
>you're going to rebuild anyways, 
>
>Since I care about that extra 2megs, I recompiled my own kernel,
>  
>
And the real problem of a big kernel is????
I dont understand exactly why do you have to recompile, unless a new 
future is needed, like SMP, isnt it?, what harm is doing those extra megs?
May be you could clarify on this (for the newbies... :-) ), i always add 
things to generic instead of cut them down, especially that im not an 
expert on every future commented there, and i am scared to break working 
things, openbsd recomends dont recompile, shoul we?
thanks



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