>>>>> "kyak" == kyak <[email protected]> writes:
> David, just be careful with an idea to build sound as a module. This > is a boot time/RAM tradeoff: > Sound used to be a module, and, it took precious time to load it > during boot. So we made it builtin. And i'm sure most users have sound > loaded anyway, so there will be no gain in RAM usage, just lose of > precious boot time. Hmm, why not load it via modprobe as soon as a sound application requests it? Ah, the mixer setting stuff during bootup would fail then, I guess. Ok, I see, sound is better left unmodularized. > I would agree to move some other (not commonly used) modules, like > vfat to modules and separate ipks, if it's not the case already. Just realizing that we probably shouldn't move ext2 into a module, as this is needed to boot of debian. Can't force people to use initrd to boot alternate OSes, as RAM might not suffice for an initrd. BTW MIPS position independent code is pretty expensive code-bloat wise, AFAIR. So moving stuff into modules also costs a little RAM, once these modules are loaded. cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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