Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:21:09 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607102121.RAA11178@etinc.com>
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>> 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. Isnt the idea that the generic kernel will boot on a wide variety of of machines regardless of the cards installed? Is it impossible to have 2 kernels, one generic and one compact? (2 separate boot floppies). It would be cool to be able to boot on a low memory system. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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