From: Fabio Olive Leite (oliveunixforge.org)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 13:21:45 CDT

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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:55:34AM -0700, cloper wrote:
> nope. let me put it like this, my testbed systems are sparcstation 20s,
> and i have found that stripping the kernel down to what devices it has,
> makes it run a lot faster. that is why i do it, it improves speed from
> my experience.

Ahh OK, so that changes the scenario a bit. I thought there would be
no speed difference on any arch.

I guess the whole issue is flamebait here because whenever someone
comments about stripping down a kernel some other people start
thinking about this too just for the added (and _very_ subjective)
"cool factor". Perhaps the developers are worried about the snowball
effect of this. More people comment on it -> more unskilled people try
it -> more useless bug reports.

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