On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dan Olson wrote:
> One thought, it seems like the total amount of system memory needed to
> boot is getting way up there too, I worry that if we find a way to get
> more space free for the kernal, then there will be just that much less
> left for everything else. At some point I'm afraid we're going to just
> have to break down and pick and choose those things that we really
> need/want to have (for example, I'd like networking in addition to 3
> virtual terminal and room for a couple other processes, but I don't need
> msdos filesystem support).
While I agree that this is a concern, allowing non-kernel drivers may even
allow for MORE main memory, if we ever get swapping working. I envision
the space required for this feature to be in the 0.5 to 1 Kbyte range -
perhaps much less. And in the ELKS tradition, it will probably be a
compile time option. (The last time I built a kernel, I couldn't say
"yes" to every option due to space reasons, but that may be different
now.)
Shane
