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SubjectRe: autoconfiguring kernel ?
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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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