From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 14:47:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A7516A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:47:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mmiranda@123.com.sv) Received: from asgard1.americatelsal.com (asgard.americatelsal.com [200.13.161.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AD243D46 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:47:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mmiranda@123.com.sv) Received: (qmail 30718 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2005 14:48:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.124?) (200.13.161.68) by asgard1.americatelsal.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 2005 14:48:13 -0000 Message-ID: <43720C33.3040901@123.com.sv> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:48:19 -0600 From: Miguel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney References: <120ef0530511041210s6d3dbee8pc2db36129b44be2c@mail.gmail.com> <436BCA7B.6060700@voidmain.net> <4370D0A9.4030707@freebsd.org> <20051108195026.GR775@funkthat.com> <437105E7.6070605@123.com.sv> <20051109083016.GW775@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20051109083016.GW775@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:47:21 -0000 John-Mark Gurney wrote: >Miguel wrote this message on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 14:09 -0600: > > >>I dont understand exactly why do you have to recompile, unless a new >>future is needed, like SMP, isnt it?, what harm is doing those extra megs? >> >> >In the general case, no, you do not need to recompile.. Those extra >megs aren't doing any harm... (besides taking up memory).. > >I recompile because I'm both familar with the kernel (if I break >anything, I can clean it up) , and the extra size of the kernel means >that I loose that much memory to running programs... > That sounds like a valid reason to me, so if you have little memory you should try learn what options you don't need and recompile your kernel without them, if, like in my case, memory is not a big constraint, you better stay with generic, unless recompile is _really_ nedded. All is clearer for me now, thanks