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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>,
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On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > bde         95/09/10 14:36:12
> > > 
> > ...
> > >   Make pcvt and syscons live in the same kernel.  If both are enabled, then
> > >   the first one in the config has priority.  They can be switched using
> > >   userconfig().
> > 
> > YES!  THANK YOU Bruce!
> > 
> > Is there any chance of getting both enabled in the GENERIC kernel for
> > the poor ThinkPad users Jordan?
> > 
> > 
> > Nate
> 
> I dunno..  GENERIC is getting pretty *big*, and now the commercial
> database folks are saying that they need ALL the SYSV* options enabled
> too.  Yeeks!

Can we not make two GENERIC kernels?  One with the generic hardware 
support, but light on in the extras like SYSVSHM etc, and a second 
(say)BIGGENERIC with more hardware support, and most of the commonly 
requested "fruit", like SYSVSHM etc as used by XFree86 etc, and thinks 
like ppp, ktrace, bpf etc etc.  Perhaps have this as an optional package 
or something.

The idea being to have a workable but not (excessively) bloated default 
kernel to get the machine up and running (and useful), to the point where 
they can either built a custom kernel (if they have kernel source) or 
install a bigger kernel if they are so inclined.

> 					Jordan

-Peter