On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:11:48PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 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

Seconded, maybe it's time to add some form of preprocessing to config(8)?

> 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>
> 

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)