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To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell), current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kernel w/o source? [MOD_DECL in lkm.h] 
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 19:11:38 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> [various really good points deleted]

> That said, I'm sure that some people wouldn't mind having an 'object-mostly'
> kernel distribution in addition to the full source distribution. That way 
> people who want to make quick driver changes and don't want to recompile
> the whole kernel can just load the object-mostly kernel tree and do a quick

I don't see this happening as a sole objective, but I do see it
possibly happening as a side-effect of some more general, long-awaited
effort to bring FreeBSD's config(8) into the 90's. :-)

Unfortunately, every time we've also looked around for someone who'd
be really interested in the idea of championing config, the room has
quickly emptied. :-)

						Jordan