From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 11:36:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03627 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guava.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03606 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by guava.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA24075 Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:35:49 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199607101835.TAA24075@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:35:49 +0100 (BST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607101721.LAA23842@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 10, 96 11:21:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Having worked with BSD/*nix systems since the mid-80's, as I understand > it GENERIC wasn't intened to be a 'minimal' kernel with as little wasted > space as possible, but a 'kitchen-sink' kernel which contained every > conceivable driver so that you could never had to build a custom kernel With this in mind, would it not make sense to have a fairly minimal kernel on the boot floppy, and include a larger, and more complete 'GENERIC' as part of the bindist? That way you get the best of both worlds. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ I'm a 'control' freak. But I quite like 'meta' too. ]ENTP