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Re: Why *are* the kernels monolithic?
From: Damien Miller (djm
mindrot.org)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 07:34:54 CDT
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Ed White wrote:
> Theo de Raadt wrote:
>
>>>Sure, if you're running at the margins, you might need a custom kernel.
>>>But, if you're running at the margins, you're in the minority (by
>>>definition), and you either know what you're doing, or you have the
>>>money or the time to learn.
>>
>>Well, spoken. And don't worry -- nothing is going to change. Simple
>>is powerful.
>
>
> To keep it simple we could add one or two kernel flavours, like NetBSD does.
>
> Something like
> GENERIC everything
> LAPTOP CardBus, ...
> SERVER SCSI, ...
Who cares? Any modern laptop, server or desktop is likely to have enough
RAM that fiddling with driver removal is going to be lost in the noise.
Would you prefer the developers to be fiddling with driver sets or
fixing real bugs and implementing useful stuff? (... or rehashing the
same already-answered questions on mailing lists).
I think my time is worth more than 2Mb of RAM: ~AUD$2.50 for good
PC3200 stuff.
-d
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