From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 22:12:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA16763 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:12:21 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA16757 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:12:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA25476 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:12:05 -0700 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: OK! Time out on 4MB issue please! Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 22:12:04 -0700 Message-ID: <25474.812610724@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Sorry to have aroused so much ire, folks! But try and see this a little bit from my perspective, if you will. I have seen this demon pop up in *every* release since 2.0, to be fought grudgingly back each time. The day will come when we run entirely out of options if we keep going on this way, but perhaps I can forestall that for just a little while longer with 2.1. I will try to implement a few of the suggestions that folks have sent me over the last few days for shrinking the kernel back below 1MB for 2.1. This should bring the 4MB folks back. I will not be anywhere near as sympathetic about this come 2.2 time, so I hope that the "small memory" advocates can get the all-singing, all-dancing dynamic load/unload device driver mechanism put together by then! :-) Jordan