> also, since pae is only 18 years old, we can assert that you probablly
> don't have a #9 video card in it or other such old stuff. i have nothing
> against the old stuff, but there has to be a way to clean out the closets. :-)
I tend to trim down my kernel for at least some of the (old) machines I use.
For example:
% cat /sys/src/9/pc/foible
# foible - Lucio's workstation
dev
root
cons
arch
pnp pci
env
pipe
proc
mnt
srv
dup
rtc
ssl
tls
cap
kprof
fs
ether netif
ip arp chandial ip ipv6 ipaux iproute netlog nullmedium
pktmedium ptclbsum386 inferno
draw screen vga vgax
mouse mouse
vga
kbmap
kbin
sd
floppy dma
aoe
lpt
ac97 dma
uart
usb
wd
link
audioac97 audioac97mix
realmode
apm apmjump
ether82557 pci
ethermedium
pcmciamodem
netdevmedium
loopbackmedium
usbuhci
usbehci usbehcipc
x86watchdog
misc
archmp mp apic mpacpi
mtrr
sdata pci sdscsi
uarti8250
uartpci pci
vgas3 +cur vgasavage
vgavesa
ip
il
tcp
udp
rudp
ipifc
icmp
icmp6
gre
ipmux
esp
port
int cpuserver = 0;
boot boot #S/sdC0/
tcp
il
local
bootdir
boot$CONF.out boot
/386/bin/ip/ipconfig
/386/bin/auth/factotum
/386/bin/cfs
/386/bin/usb/usbd
There's some unused stuff left over, I'm sure, but it's a smaller
kernel:
--rwxrwxr-x M 12 lucio sys 2108931 Mar 28 20:05 /386/9foible
--rwxrwxr-x M 12 sys sys 2588634 Dec 3 00:50 /386/9pc
Perhaps not much, I thought taking out all the VGA redundancy would
make a bigger difference.
And, for the curious, AC97 works quite adequately, but I haven't been
able to get IL to work, the fileserver connection fails (yes, the file
server also has IL in the kernel).
++L
