Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 11:03:40 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601031803.LAA15037@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2046.820639273@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 2, 96 07:21:13 pm
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> > How small can a kernel be made and still have all the disk drivers > > in it? We'd want all the SCSI disk drivers, wdc, sio, sc, UFS, > > CD9660 and a fixed 8M memory limit. No swap stuff, no networking, > > no quotas. > > I'm not sure we would. Consider how NT does it - they have one disk > that contains the kernel bootstrap and another disk that contains > drivers, each of which it loads, tries and then tosses out again if > it's not needed. I'd be willing to go to 2 or more boot floppies > again if it were for something as nicely generic as that.. :-) This would require a VM86 mechanism for using the BIOS until the drivers are loaded. Like NT does it. I wonder if Microsoft took that idea from our discussions of VM86() disk drivers 4 years ago... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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