From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 14:18:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14850 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com ([204.141.95.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14827 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA11178; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:21:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:21:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199607102121.RAA11178@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Nik Clayton From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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. 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