Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64/conf

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Jan 1, 2008 5:40 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:20:42AM +0000, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Add a trimmed-down configuration file for the VMware Fusion virtual machine
> > suitable for the subset of hardware devices it provides.
>
> Please revert this. I don't want to see essentially useless kernel
> configurations again, especially on platforms where the size contrainst
> essentially doesn't exist.

This was not done to reduce the size.  The reason behind this change
was to make the kernel boot as quickly as possible (some devices in
GENERIC add a noticeable delay to the boot process, which is extremely
annoying in case you need to do frequent reboot cycles), and to
provide users a simple template they can use for custom kernels when
doing kernel development work under this virtual machine.

Ideally, this kernel would be defined as "include everything else
*except* the device drivers, and then let me define the exact drivers
I need".  Dunno if that is possible with the current implementation of
config.

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