Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies
On 7/5/05, A G T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It certainly is nowadays. > Old assembler language guys cringe at wasted bytes though ; > Perhaps, but even as someone that used to write assembly language, I'll take portable, easier to maintain code over something that's extremely efficient but difficult to maintain and certainly not portable. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Rich Teer wrote: Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:58:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: AG Toon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, AG Toon wrote: So what you say.. Well Im used to *BSD source where you can, say, build a kernel without extraneous drivers for long dead ether cards hogging disk space and fattening up your kernel : > Open Solaris aint there yet. With OpenSolaris, we're used to modular kernels that load only the modules they require right now, without all that messy kernel compilation. ;-) Well yes I knew that but really the point here is (I think) that things are a tad haywire right now - maybe now is a good time to nip things in the bud..? Why have E1 stuff when it wont be used and the source aint there anyhoo? A finer grained and more closely audited sun4u tree (acrually not just sun4u) would be nice but I guess I can live without it. At least I can get where I am right now which is pretty good. So I guess you vote for copying all the 'piggy back' files then over customizing a prototype file..? (Disk space is cheap to counter your other point.) It certainly is nowadays. Old assembler language guys cringe at wasted bytes though ; > ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies
>So what you say.. >Well Im used to *BSD source where you can, say, build a kernel >without extraneous drivers for long dead ether cards >hogging disk space and fattening up your kernel : > >Open Solaris aint there yet. In Solaris all kernel drivers are dynamically loaded; they sit on disk (which is cheap) but they're not loaded in the kernel. >I had a question: >If I took the piggy back stuff away what would happen? Nothing, you'd save a few meazly bytes on disk. I think you can make a smaller bootable image than 300 MB, though Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, AG Toon wrote: > So what you say.. > Well Im used to *BSD source where you can, say, build a kernel > without extraneous drivers for long dead ether cards > hogging disk space and fattening up your kernel : > > Open Solaris aint there yet. With OpenSolaris, we're used to modular kernels that load only the modules they require right now, without all that messy kernel compilation. ;-) (Disk space is cheap to counter your other point.) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
