Subject: Re: GENERIC is absurdly big
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/18/2003 18:42:20
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:11:48PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> We should keep one kernel that has it all. I don't care
> what it's called, but it's convenient for several reasons.
>
> -- Lennart
Seconded, maybe it's time to add some form of preprocessing to config(8)?
> Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >Folks...
> >
> >GENERIC has become absurdly big, ~7MB.
> >
> >I think it's time to split the beast up a bit:
> >
> > GENERIC "Modern" machines, basically systems that would
> > have PCI on them. ISA bus support, and support
> > for ISA mainboard devices, but not the long list
> > of ISA Ethernet, SCSI, etc.
> >
> > Open issue: How to deal with systems that have
> > PCI-EISA bridges.
> >
> > GENERIC_EISA
> > Targeted towards older EISA-based systems. No
> > PCI support.
> >
> > GENERIC_ISA
> > Targeted towards older ISA-based systems. No
> > PCI support. No EISA support.
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> > -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
>
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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)