From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com> Cc: Daniel <ddickman@nyc.rr.com>, Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: obsolete code must die Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:26:02 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview] Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106140125010.14934-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010613204443.00bbb150@mail.fluent-access.com> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Stephen Satchell wrote: > At 12:24 AM 6/14/01 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > >Everything you propose to get rid of are DRIVERS. They > >do NOT complicate the core kernel, do NOT introduce bugs > >in the core kernel and have absolutely NOTHING to do with > >how simple or maintainable the core kernel is. > > Not quite. There were two non-driver suggestions that the man did > make: remove 386/486 support and remove floating-point emulation > support. Both are bad for the embedded-systems space, because the 486 > is still used there widely. Both are waaaay outside the core of the kernel, though. > Are all the bus support code exclusively in drivers, or is there > something compiled into the nucleus for start-up? They're compiled into the nucleus (if you want to), but they're in no way clogging up the source code of the core kernel. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-14 4:26 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106140018140.14934-100000@imladris.rielhome .conectiva> 2001-06-14 0:44 ` Daniel 2001-06-14 0:54 ` Rik van Riel 2001-06-14 0:56 ` Jaswinder Singh 2001-06-14 1:00 ` Jeff Garzik [not found] ` <20010613204729.A18297@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net> 2001-06-14 1:05 ` Daniel Dickman 2001-06-14 1:09 ` Rik van Riel 2001-06-14 1:20 ` Gary E. Miller 2001-06-14 1:08 ` Colonel 2001-06-13 22:23 ` Rafael Diniz 2001-06-15 19:45 ` Eric Hancock 2001-06-14 19:00 ` Mike A. Harris 2001-06-14 1:11 ` John Chris Wren 2001-06-14 1:13 ` Claudio Martins 2001-06-14 1:23 ` Justin Guyett 2001-06-14 1:51 ` Mohammad A. Haque 2001-06-14 1:55 ` Horst von Brand 2001-06-14 3:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2001-06-14 1:58 ` D. Stimits 2001-06-14 2:22 ` Alan Olsen 2001-06-14 1:24 ` Robert Love 2001-06-14 1:32 ` Colonel 2001-06-14 1:45 ` Rainer Mager 2001-06-14 2:00 ` Download process for a "split kernel" (was: obsolete code must die) David Luyer 2001-06-14 2:30 ` Jaswinder Singh 2001-06-14 7:56 ` Daniel Phillips 2001-06-14 8:34 ` Alexander Viro 2001-06-14 16:25 ` Daniel Phillips 2001-06-14 17:21 ` Richard Gooch 2001-06-14 12:07 ` Horst von Brand 2001-06-14 12:14 ` David Luyer 2001-06-14 12:18 ` Rob Landley 2001-06-14 7:56 ` obsolete code must die Alan Cox 2001-06-14 9:06 ` Ghozlane Toumi 2001-06-14 9:24 ` James Sutherland 2001-06-14 14:45 ` Michael Bacarella 2001-06-15 3:58 ` Michael Peddemors 2001-06-15 4:09 ` Joel Jaeggli 2001-06-15 11:51 ` Rogier Wolff 2001-06-14 1:41 ` David Luyer 2001-06-14 2:37 ` Tom Vier 2001-06-14 8:35 ` Bohdan Vlasyuk 2001-06-14 10:25 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz 2001-06-14 2:31 ` James Stevenson 2001-06-14 3:24 ` Rik van Riel 2001-06-14 3:48 ` Stephen Satchell 2001-06-14 4:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message] 2001-06-14 6:31 ` Russell King 2001-06-14 6:54 ` Daniel Dickman 2001-06-14 7:12 ` L. K. 2001-06-14 8:44 ` Luigi Genoni 2001-06-14 9:55 ` Thomas Pornin 2001-06-14 15:15 ` Brad Johnson 2001-06-14 18:57 ` Mike A. Harris 2001-06-15 3:48 ` Michael Peddemors 2001-06-15 14:21 ` Horst von Brand 2001-06-14 10:22 Heusden, Folkert van 2001-06-14 13:05 ` Nils Holland 2001-06-14 14:01 Jesse Pollard 2001-06-14 17:21 ` richard
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