Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Modularizing source tree? | Date | Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:02:44 +0100 (BST) |
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> I'm not saying that the kernel should be hacked up into bite sized pieces > right now. With the current feature freeze that would create a mess. I'm > saying it would be really nice if I could pick and choose what drivers I > need for my system and just download those. Certainly this must be > feasable for most of the things that currently can compile as modules? > Maybe a few linkages need to go into the kernel, but (correct me if I'm > wrong) a lot of modules can be compiled totally independently of the > source tree, right? So why not let people d/l those instead? Create a > "kernel core" with the stuff it needs to boot and the important stuff, > like highlevel scsi, file system, sound driver, and the _really common_ > stuff like IDE, ext2, sound blaster (maybe). A four meg core kernel + a > couple megs of drivers beats out 11 - 12 megs any day.
11Mb a day ? - learn to use diff 8)
As to the rest of the issues, its not sensible from a developer point of view to do this. Nothing stops someone else offering a customised kernel download service. Nothing at all
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