From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 15:27:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA21053 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:27:14 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA21048 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:27:13 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01200; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:26:32 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509302226.PAA01200@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199509301848.OAA05922@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Sep 30, 95 02:48:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1535 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >>All I can say is this: If we can get things back to below the 4MB > >>boundry then that will be fine and dandy, but we WILL be back here > >>again. We really need to get the dynamic device driver issue > >>on the road if we're to ever have any hope at all in running on > >>small memory machines for the forseeable future. Perhaps one > >>or more of the last 4MB hold-outs will see necessity as the > >>mother of invention and start working on this? :) > >> > >> Jordan > > > >Fixing LKMs (something even people with more than 4MB want) should take > >care of this. > >-- > > It really shouldn't. I think that what is needed is a "bootload" kernel and > a "generic" > kernel. While its ok for the generic kernel to be large, the "bootload" > should allow someone to > load the system and compile (or load) a custom kernel, which can be much > smaller. There's no > reason why the generic kernel has to be used on the boot floppy. and it already isn't.. the kernel on the floppy is compiled seperatly, using a config file automatically derived from GENERIC.. certainly we can generate a couple of different boot floppies, by just duplicating that code in the Makefile and changing what gets deleted from the GENERIC config.. > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 > >