From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:26:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:26:38 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:57867 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:26:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:26:02 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel To: Stephen Satchell Cc: Daniel , Linux kernel Subject: Re: obsolete code must die In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010613204443.00bbb150@mail.fluent-access.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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)