Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:50:26 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: Richard Bejtlich <taosecurity@gmail.com>, freebsd@voidmain.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades) Message-ID: <20051108195026.GR775@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <4370D0A9.4030707@freebsd.org> References: <120ef0530511041210s6d3dbee8pc2db36129b44be2c@mail.gmail.com> <436BCA7B.6060700@voidmain.net> <4370D0A9.4030707@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote this message on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:22 -0800:
> In deciding what options should go into the GENERIC kernel, I think the
> question we should be asking is not "how many people use this?", but
> instead "would adding this option inconvenience more people than it would
> help?".
GENERIC is already so large, that if you want/need a smaller kernel,
you're going to rebuild anyways, so the only people it truely
inconviences are the people who just want their system to work w/o
extra work...
>From 5.4-R:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5896397 May 8 2005 /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3508960 Sep 4 15:29 /boot/kernel/kernel*
Since I care about that extra 2megs, I recompiled my own kernel, but
most systems these days a couple megs isn't that big of a deal, and
if you're trying to fit it on a small system, you'll care, and you'll
need to recompile anyways...
If it doesn't conflict, add it. :)
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