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Re: Please read if you use x86 -current




On Nov,Wednesday 12 2008, at 8:43 PM, vincent wrote:


Le 12 nov. 08 à 15:57, Andrew Doran a écrit :

The x86 GENERIC kernels have become bloated. The plan is to start moving much functionality out of the main binary and into kernel modules (new style
modules, not LKMs).

The first component to be moved is POSIX semaphores. The GENERIC kernel no

Do you plan to move away further core kernel modules, like UVM or VFS ?

What do you mean with this ? Both UVM and VFS are core kernel parts and they can't be moved away, but POSIX semaphores are not core kernel part and can be
modularized easily.

Regards

Adam.



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