Messages in this thread | | | From | "Graham Mitchell" <> | Date | Sun, 28 Apr 1996 17:26:28 +0000 | Subject | Re: My personal wish-list |
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On 26 Apr 96 at 16:09, Aaron Fredrick Tiensivu wrote:
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> o 'linux/drivers' split into architecture specific branches
I dont think this is a good idea.... There will be more and more commonality in the future, as more different architectures start to use PCI eg PowerPC
> o Option to throw away 'other' architecture code
Again no. Lets keep ALL the kernel sources together.
> o Various 'README' files in various directories stuck where they should be, in > 'Documentation'
YES..... This should be done for V2.0 i would say.
> o Cleaner kmalloc > o SBPCD seperated into drive families - taking out support for TEAC and the > other 'families' that don't pertain to my setup resulted in a 50% reduction > in code-size.
Yes..... and some speed improvements..... Its so damn slow just now.
> o 'vmlinuz' created as a symlink pointing to 'vmlinuz_x.x.xxx' , same with > System.map. That way, no need to go probing to the file looking for version > signature.
Yup.... and lilo supporting this
Graham
Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your government is doing to you
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