Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fastcall-2.3.32-B6, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support | Date | Sun, 12 Dec 1999 18:44:51 +1100 |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:04:41 -0700, Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> wrote: >3) have a collection of modules, one for each CPU (implementation) > type, and user-space picks the correct one to load. The module > initialises the global page. >The advantage of (3) is that keeps the kernel small and is also >friendly to embedded systems.
Not all embedded systems support modules, nor do they want to. Almost by definition you build an embedded system for a specific set of hardware so why add kernel code to support modules plus ROM space to hold the objects and the modutil binaries?
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