Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:36:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: davidg@root.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za Subject: Re: pseudo device lkm's broken Message-ID: <199509010336.UAA24081@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509010231.TAA22268@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Aug 31, 95 07:31:00 pm
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> Yeah, I think this is a large part of the issue. It would nice to have the > symbols, anyway, so that we can provide the operator with a traceback when the > system crashes. I get so tired of telling people how to lookup symbols with > 'nm /kernel'. ...but this will cost us about 100K more kernel bloat. Sigh. I > really am getting to the point where I think that booting in 4MB will no > longer be possible in the near future. Consider that for that 100k, you can demand-load drivers so that you need not have useless drivers in your kernel. The GENERIC kernel has more than 100k of useless drivers; there just aren't enough interrupt lines on a PC for them all to be useful. 8-). I've got to prototype it before I make any more guesses on numbers. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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