Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:25:26 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h Message-ID: <199911292125.OAA60469@caspian.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:14:20 MST." <199911292214.PAA97196@harmony.village.org>
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>In message <199911292202.OAA09817@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: >: We throw away the device market entirely if we do that. > >Give me a break Matt. There are many non-optiona parts of the kernel >that bloat things more than 1k. We have 21 .o files in the kernel > >15k. We can easily optimize nfs to gain more than that. We are >better off loading firmware from the boot loader, if possible, for the >aic7xxxx and isp devices (I don't have the isp driver in my config >file). Actually, if I could put all of my initialization and firmware into a separate section and "dump it" after I've loaded it into the card, I'd be happy. The assumption, of course, would be that the probe module could be reloaded again should a card be inserted (i.e. the probe module would not be located on the device (or sub-device of that device) being activated). -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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