Subject: Re: GENERIC is absurdly big
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/21/2003 17:40:09
Greywolf [Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:29:25AM -0800]:
> I was previously dead-set against having kernel modules load at boot time
> one by one because it seemed to tremendously slow down the boot process.
I always thought, that the hardware probing -- which is no different in
module or in built-in driver -- takes most time.
> After all, if you know what your hardware is and what it's going to be
Didn't you ever change / upgrade your hardware?
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