Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:26:02 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: obsolete code must die |
| |
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Stephen Satchell wrote: > At 12:24 AM 6/14/01 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > >Everything you propose to get rid of are DRIVERS. They > >do NOT complicate the core kernel, do NOT introduce bugs > >in the core kernel and have absolutely NOTHING to do with > >how simple or maintainable the core kernel is. > > Not quite. There were two non-driver suggestions that the man did > make: remove 386/486 support and remove floating-point emulation > support. Both are bad for the embedded-systems space, because the 486 > is still used there widely.
Both are waaaay outside the core of the kernel, though.
> Are all the bus support code exclusively in drivers, or is there > something compiled into the nucleus for start-up?
They're compiled into the nucleus (if you want to), but they're in no way clogging up the source code of the core kernel.
regards,
Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...
http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy)
- 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/
| |