Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:09:58 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK! Time out on 4MB issue please! Message-ID: <199510021409.KAA10228@etinc.com>
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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! :-) > Just give us a little more than a few days warning and maybe someone else will address the issue. Last minute bombshells generate tremendous passion. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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