Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 07:59:19 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: time.cdrom.com!jkh@dg-rtp.dg.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK! Time out on 4MB issue please! Message-ID: <199510021159.HAA15735@lakes>
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> > 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 > Just so I can understand this... The 4meg limit is hit because use MFS to do the install - or because the kernel, after being unzipped, is too large to fit. If we were to use a different method than MFS, could we then operate? Personally, although the current install is rather slick - I didn't mind the previous method(s). Now that I'm back from my hiatus, I wouldn't mind getting together with the "small memory" advocates and investigating this. I can set up an ancient 386 with a small WD drive and 4 megs of memory (and a 1.2 floppy :-) ) to run experiments. - Dave Rivers -
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