We should keep one kernel that has it all.  I don't care
what it's called, but it's convenient for several reasons.

	-- Lennart


Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Folks...
> 
> GENERIC has become absurdly big, ~7MB.
> 
> I think it's time to split the beast up a bit:
> 
>     GENERIC        "Modern" machines, basically systems that would
>                 have PCI on them.  ISA bus support, and support
>                 for ISA mainboard devices, but not the long list
>                 of ISA Ethernet, SCSI, etc.
> 
>                 Open issue: How to deal with systems that have
>                 PCI-EISA bridges.
> 
>     GENERIC_EISA
>                 Targeted towards older EISA-based systems.  No
>                 PCI support.
> 
>     GENERIC_ISA
>                 Targeted towards older ISA-based systems.  No
>                 PCI support.  No EISA support.
> 
> Comments?
> 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>