Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:29:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199509302229.PAA01215@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199509301854.LAA29955@aslan.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 30, 95 11:54:16 am
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> > agree wioth you, but we're talking about what can be done before 2.1 to save ourselves from certain embarasment and a possible fatal flaw it's not just how much is needed to install. but people ask "How efficiently does it use RAM?" and thelinux people say. "Well FreeBSD doesn't even install in 4MB" and the user goes to Linux.. (misleading, but must marketting is..) > I respectfully disagree. ;-) > > The "boot kernel" should have enough glue to load LKMs for anything from > NFS support to your favorite SCSI driver off of the boot floppy (or even > additional floppies). The LKM for device drivers should have an entry > point that lets you determine presence of the hardware before committing > the whole module to memory. In this way, a "generic" boot floppy could > cycle through all LKMs asking them to do the probe and only load the full > module (or perhaps unload the module in the event of failure) if the probe > is successful. In this way, the only way you'd not be able to install > in a low memory configuration is if you had everything but the kitchen > sink in your machine. > > I want to move toward a more dynamic system where > in most cases you don't have to recompile the kernel to get the right > configuration for you system. LKMs seem the natural solution. > > >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 > > > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== >
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