From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 15 13:23:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scully.zoominternet.net (scully.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E366837B402 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6270 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2001 21:20:35 -0000 Received: from acs-24-154-26-81.zoominternet.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (24.154.26.81) by scully.zoominternet.net with SMTP; 15 Jan 2001 21:20:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3A636A2D.2C731772@cvzoom.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:22:53 -0500 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim King Cc: Matt Dillon , Jordan Hubbard , opentrax@email.com, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, roman@harmonic.co.il, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OOPS.. (Re: MFC? src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and sound support) References: <83645.979588312@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200101152106.f0FL6l487391@earth.backplane.com> <01d201c07f38$76d52470$524c8486@jking> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim King wrote: > Just a suggestion: Distribute 3 or 4 kernels and let the user pick which > one they want install. Have one be like the current state of GENERIC, one > tuned for servers (with RAID drivers, etc.), one tuned for modern > workstations (sound, etc.). Or, only statically link the "essential" drivers into the kernel. "Luxury" items such as pcm could be loaded via a KLD, as someone else suggested. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message