Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: autoconfiguring kernel ? | Date | 28 Apr 1996 00:18:50 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960427142824.15196A-100000@connor.canuck.gen.nz> By author: "J. Sean Connell" <diamond@connor.canuck.gen.nz> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Something I'd like to see would be a way to reconfig the kernel and then > just rebuild those bits that really *need* rebuilding, as opposed to > having to rebuild the whole kernel. Even if half the kernel had to be > rebuilt, that'd be preferable to rebuilding *everything*, especially on > slower machines. > This is already happening, due to the increased use of modules. I suspect in the future most Linux systems will boot via an initial ramdisk holding the modules needed for boot.
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