Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 19:11:38 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> 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] Message-ID: <12012.852520298@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jan 1997 14:01:56 EST." <199701051901.OAA18285@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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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
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