Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

[foo bar <tokenalt%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 9:13 PM Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
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> > On Mar 23, 2026, at 5:19 PM, foo bar <tokenalt%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> > I would offer the counter point that GENERIC is getting a little too
> > big these days. It's already too big to boot on sun4c machines with
> > the original memory config most of them shipped with. Having a unified
> > kernel that boots on everything is nice on paper but on sun4 and sun4c
> > the lack of RAM makes things painfully slow. I think it might be worth
> > going back to the SunOS way of having a separate kernel for each
> > karch.
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> Aren’t modules supposed to solve this problem for us?

I would assume so, that's how Solaris solved this problem. But the
GENERIC kernel still comes out to around 6MB I believe, which is far
too much on older systems and unbootable on SS1/1+/IPC/SLC with their
original memory configuration.