Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

[Wes Peters]

Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > The issue is with really small ram embedded systems.
> > Making things CAPABLE of being small is different from making
> > them dynamicly loadable.
> 
> Nobody in their right mind is going to produce a "really small ram"
> embedded system that features the sort of nondeterminism that
> "automatically" (read 'randomly') unloading modules would involve.

Actually, embedded programmers are more likely to link everything in
the kernel so they don't have to worry about calling drivers that aren't
loaded.  A pretty conservative lot, in general.

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            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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