Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:47:34 +1000 | From | Stuart Longland <> | Subject | Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ? |
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Nicolas Mailhot wrote: | Le jeu 25/09/2003 à 13:15, Adrian Bunk a écrit : | |>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: |> |>>Great, now a standard mass-market computer is an embedded device. I can |>>(and will) certainly do it, but this looks like a ticking bomb to me. |>>... |> |>What does it cost if an unneeded driver is included in your kernel? |>Perhaps a few kB? | | | And all the bugs of the unneeded driver. | I didn't notice this because I have the habit to run diff between my old | and new config. I noticed it because on 2.6.0-test-bk9 or 10 I had my | boot logs full of warnings associated to PS/2 input. |
I presonally would like to be able to choose if I want to use the PS/2 driver or not. Mainly because a couple of machines I have here, use the old AT keyboard (DIN-5 connection, not PS/2 or USB), and have <128MB RAM. For instance, how many 386 computers have you seen with at least 32MB RAM & PS/2 or USB sockets? [1]
(And yes, I probably would be crazy enough to go put Linux 2.6 on to a 386, I've considered installing Gentoo on one actually -- just to see how long it takes :-D)
Footnotes: 1. I've only seen one exception to this, that is one old (also dead) Olivetti 386 laptop which had PS/2 keyboard & mouse sockets.
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