On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:08:38PM +0100, T. Valent wrote:
> @marc
> > If you really want that, tell us how much you're prepared to spend, maybe
> > someone would be willing to sell you time to solve that very specific
> > problem
> > since obviously, no OpenBSD developer wants to do it for free, as it's
> > considered a waste of time that could otherwise benefit the project for
> > useful purposes...
>
> Well, I'd be ready to spend money for this, if that would mean a future
> change in the kernels config files in a way that mandatory options are
> marked as such. But that to happen is very unlikely. So it would only be
> a solution for 5.0 and it may happen that with 5.1 there is a new
> mandatoy driver which depends on another driver that's included in
> GENERIC but not in my configs and then I'd have to start all over. So
> thanks for the offer, but I'm not afraid of working my way through this.
> I was always just asking if there might be a more clever way which I
> just didn't know.
Ok, so I'll bite and give you a hint, just to end this thread.
Use the config from RAMDISK as a starting point. It will produce a
useable, small kernel. It wil have a ramdisk as root, but that should
be easy to change.
Of course drivers for your hardware might be missing, but at least you
have a compiling kernel.
But be warned: RAMDISK kernels miss some stuff you might actually need
or want.
Can we end this now?
-Otto
