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On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:09 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:54 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of > > > other subsystems, or does it just enable more options? > > > > > > > It basically opens up a lot of config options. It may also disable a few > > incompatible options (ie, CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE), and enable a few. It > > will require that you know exactly what options need to be turned on or > > off. > Oh. That actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of > the Minimal Kernel. > > I'm kind of surprised that the VGA console can't be built as a module, > like the other console drivers in the kernel can be. Is this on purpose, > or is it just that nobody has gotten around to it? > It's possible to make vgacon modular, the changes required will be minimal. It would seem that nobody ever had a need for it, so that was never done. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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