From owner-freebsd-commit Fri Dec 15 02:16:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10392 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 02:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10371 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 02:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10357 for cvs-user-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 02:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10344 Fri, 15 Dec 1995 02:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA06591; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:07:39 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de cc: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lkm/gnufpu Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:01:20 +0100." <199512150801.JAA26086@achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:07:38 +0100 Message-ID: <6589.819022058@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Will this make the kernel smaller? and/or faster? I see the danger > that the dynamic driver loading will so much overhead that we end up > with a kernel as big as e.g. S*laris 2.x ... It is a necessary step to get the kernel even more modular. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.