On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:56:12AM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
> >I'd also suggest that there may be old systems that won't boot with
> >the acpi kernel, or need support for old devices.  In both cases its
> >seems sane to keep a sub 2.8MB install kernel+ramdisk.
> 
> I think for standard install media, if we're going to now ignore the 
> 2.88MB limit in the default case, the INSTALL kernel should really be 
> nothing more than something like:
> 
> 	include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC"
> 	options         MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS
> 	options         MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT
> 	options         MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=0
> 	options         MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=10000
> 
> Or whatever is the syntax... apart from reducing maintenance headaches 
> it will also give a better idea at install time of the hardware support 
> (and potential brokenness) once the install is complete.

Expect that there really are a lot of drivers (and some kernel features)
that are unnecessary.

We also need to start with GENERIC.ACPI (or add ACPI to GENERIC).

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk