From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 20:20: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from va.cs.wm.edu (va.cs.wm.edu [128.239.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9364637B425 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:19:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dali.cs.wm.edu (dali [128.239.26.26]) by va.cs.wm.edu (8.11.4/8.9.1) with ESMTP id fBT4Jju01495 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:19:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from zvezdan@localhost) by dali.cs.wm.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBT4JtR00536 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:19:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:19:55 -0500 From: Zvezdan Petkovic To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is splash in GENERIC? Message-ID: <20011228231955.A408@dali.cs.wm.edu> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu>; from bfoz@glue.umd.edu on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:36:21PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:36:21PM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I noticed the thread a little while ago about shrinking the kernel to > get it on the release floppies (was that here or on hackers?) and splash > seems like a good candidate for the chopping block. AFAICT it's not > required if you don't want a splash screen and the install disks aren't > set up for a default splash screen. I just tried making a kernel without > splash and it seems to work fine, in fact I'm writing this email on the > same machine. Of course, I've only been running this kernel for a few > minutes so I guess something bad could crop up. Is there any reason its > included in GENERIC? > Don't mix the shrinking of the kernel to fit on the boot floppy (something that is really necessary) with shrinking features in GENERIC. GENERIC should be, well, _generic_. It contains as much useful features and drivers as necessary to satisfy most users/hardware. You are free to optimise your kernel for your machine/preferences of course. If you do not have SCSI -- no need to have those drivers in the kernel. If you do not like splash screen, so be it. -- Zvezdan Petkovic http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message