From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 19:04:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17705 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17697 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA18766; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:03:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:03:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199810010203.WAA18766@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Garrett Wollman , Poul-Henning Kamp , Chuck Robey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment about verbose booting In-Reply-To: <199809302334.HAA15192@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <199809302030.QAA17624@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199809302334.HAA15192@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Don't joke... It's not all that difficult - the main problem is one of > fragmentation and the memory impact if we keep skipping page boundaries to > avoid bloating the kernel image (or .o or .so). Trynig to reclaim a page > in the middle of chunks of in-use data isn't fun. So the obvious way to do it is to just have a single section, .data_to_be_thrown_away_later, and put everything there. > One possibility is if it ends up in a plaintext file in /boot somewhere as > part of a control mechanism for assigning a driver.o file to a pci or pnp > device id or a mapping between a probe module and a driver itself. I think you'll find that people are unwilling to give up their monolithic kernels. There's too much danger from version skew (and, in the alternative, too much to swap around if you need to boot multiple kernels). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message