On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:49:49PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Aside from that, LKMs just add overhead in order to achieve laziness.

Sorry, this is just bull shit. LKMs add *zero* overhead to the kernel.
You have the symbol table in the kernel, as soon as e.g. debugging is
wanted too. Everything else is self-contained.

Proper kernel module support dramatically reduces the need to have
alternative kernels. Look at FreeBSD: they have two basic configurations
-- UP and SMP. No ACPI subkernels needed, since ACPI is loaded as module
or not, depending on need.

Joerg