Subject: Re: sun3 versus netbsd-1.3 kernel sizes
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/20/1998 16:25:46
Gordon W. Ross said:
>No, I think it would make more sense to build an INSTALL kernel
>that does not have so much bloat as GENERIC does. GENERIC will
>almost fit as it is, so it should be easy to slim it down. We
>can do without: SYSVMSG, SYSVSEM, SYSVSHM, KTRACE, UNION, PROCFS,
>NFSSERVER, (and probably lots of other things). I guess I sould
>do that for the 1.3.1 patch release (for 3/50 support).
I agree, this makes a lot sense. A minimum GENERIC kernel that will
suffice for installation of the OS.
I would do a snapshot on a 3/60, but I don't have one running 1.3
right now.
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