Miguel wrote this message on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 14:09 -0600:
John-Mark Gurney wrote:
GENERIC is already so large, that if you want/need a smaller kernel,
you're going to rebuild anyways,
Since I care about that extra 2megs, I recompiled my own kernel,
And the real problem of a big
John-Mark Gurney wrote:
Miguel wrote this message on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 14:09 -0600:
I dont understand exactly why do you have to recompile, unless a new
future is needed, like SMP, isnt it?, what harm is doing those extra megs?
In the general case, no, you do not need to
Robert Watson wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Colin Percival wrote:
I find this argument hard to accept. The vast majority of FreeBSD
users will never need the NFS_ROOT option, and many systems do not
even have the hardware for serial or parallel ports, yet those are
supported in the GENERIC
Tom Grove wrote:
Richard Bejtlich wrote:
After speaking with Colin, he mentioned that IPSec, NAT, and disk
quotas (enabled via options QUOTA) are the three most popular kernel
changes that prevent people from running GENERIC and hence using
freebsd-update for binary kernel updates.
Can
Colin Percival wrote:
Tom Grove wrote:
Richard Bejtlich wrote:
After speaking with Colin, he mentioned that IPSec, NAT, and disk
quotas (enabled via options QUOTA) are the three most popular kernel
changes that prevent people from running GENERIC and hence using
freebsd-update for binary
Colin Percival wrote this message on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:22 -0800:
In deciding what options should go into the GENERIC kernel, I think the
question we should be asking is not how many people use this?, but
instead would adding this option inconvenience more people than it would
help?.
John-Mark Gurney wrote:
GENERIC is already so large, that if you want/need a smaller kernel,
you're going to rebuild anyways,
Since I care about that extra 2megs, I recompiled my own kernel,
And the real problem of a big kernel is
I dont understand exactly why do you have to
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Colin Percival wrote:
Tom Grove wrote:
Richard Bejtlich wrote:
After speaking with Colin, he mentioned that IPSec, NAT, and disk
quotas (enabled via options QUOTA) are the three most popular kernel
changes that prevent people from running GENERIC and hence using
