From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 10:10:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9FA150C5 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 10:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id WAA17176; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:55:18 +0500 (ES) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id VAA00673; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:56:29 +0500 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by jane.cgu.chel.su (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA33006; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:27:49 +0500 (ES) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: jane.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:27:46 +0500 (ES) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@jane.cgu.chel.su To: Adam Cc: John Indra , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie has a lot of questions... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Adam wrote: > >| kernel is not compressed by default. There is (or was) support > >| for compressing it, but it has disadvantages (e.g. kernel > >| symbols don't work anymore, so you can't debug it, and certain > >| tools don't work anymore), and there aren't really any > >| advantages. > > > >Hmmm... OK... > >But just a newbie thought... Why don't FreeBSD compress /kernel anyway, > >and have the bootstrap "uncompress" it when it try to load /kernel... > >Then it will be the same as not compressing /kernel right? > > >From the impression I got from some other people that use Linux, the linux > kernel *must* be compressed to fit within the "real mode" memory limit of > 640k, presumably because their boot loader sucks.. :) I mentioned I have > booted 10 meg kernels and they didnt really have anything to say.. On the > other hand, with this limit it might force them to write tighter > code.. But I doubt it because I have heard of people not being able to > compile in everything they would have liked. I guess this is why they are > so crazy about modules. not exactly. having modules allows you not to recompile kernel at all. why should I recompile kernel if I want to add support to sound card ? I'm not using sound stuff anymore ? so, unload the module. _without_ kernel recompiling, _without_ reboot. isn't it just as good ?! modules are lovely ... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOHio9ORxlWKN2EXhAQFg0gMAomWcpyOoV4Hvr9PmRwGuENe4B3rBloAh On/ZDxbtb7BnQKH9iM7k9oan5CylqGrBX4s8bW+docuuYFnVyvD36S2JYZheOO9V aBAZw0+UMnvhslgXVM6lj0Og/D8C8CqI =8MLH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message