From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 6 00:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA20694 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA20685 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:51:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA11522 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:51:12 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA18485 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:51:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA03563; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:45:35 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:45:35 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel w/o source? [MOD_DECL in lkm.h] References: <199701051901.OAA18285@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <199701060602.QAA29343@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701060602.QAA29343@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jan 6, 1997 16:32:56 +1030 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > 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 > Or even just a means to construct such a distribution. Well, yes, this little detail is just missing. :) As i wrote earlier in this thread, it's certainly not that anybody here would _mind_ such a scenario, it's only that nobody of the current kernel hackers has the slightest driving force to create this construct. That's simply a matter of fact, since we already noticed that kernel hackers won't (can't) ever use such an object-mostly distribution. (Perhaps i could use in my dayjob, when setting up a customer's machine. But then, 30 MB of disk space and 10 minutes of compilation time are still cheaper to me.) That said, unless somebody is really willing to make this project fly (himself!), it sure won't ever happen. This `somebody' is likely not to be found among David Greenman, John Dyson etc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)