Subject: Re: NetBSD/mac68k kernel without nubus ?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/25/1997 15:11:47
> > My question is: What's the point? The nubus.c code adds maybe 10k of extra
> > code to the kernel if you're not using it. Are you that memory hungry? :)
> 
> I too wonder what's the point. If we rip out the nubus code, we loose the
> ability for a kernel to run on any 68k mac.

Well, there is some more overhead that you lose when removing the nubus
code.  I think the point was, "Why not save the space?"  If you don't
have a bus, why compile in the code?  If you don't have a scanner, why
compile in that code?  If you have just IDE (and a working driver ;-),
why compile in any SCSI at all?

We're not talking about a GENERIC kernel here...  My kernel config that
I'm running at home doesn't have any 020 or 030 defines in it at all--just
the 040.  It's also missing a few other things that I don't need...

-allen

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              Allen Briggs - end killing - briggs@macbsd.com