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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > You mean select for pentium rather than 386?  
> 
> 386, 486, 586, 586TSC, 586MMX, 686, PentiumIII, Pentium4,
> MK6, MK7, Melan, Mcrusoe, Winchipc6, Winchip2, Winchip3d

586 - Intel 686 -Cyrix?  I think I had better not select for the processor 
as my partner already wants to use a 486 laptop and our desktops have AMD 
Intel or Cyrix cpus and a couple of PentiumII's and one MMX.

> 
> > I notice you have loadable-module support 
> 
> That's the best way to provide for all those different
> network cards.  If everyoned use the same network card,
> I could just hardwire it in.  There are also some
> filesystem modules that people might want to use.  At
> the moment BL2 can't mount minix or NTFS partitions,
> but that capability is just an insmod away.

Since I don't even know what these are I could compile without support 
from them as modules, I think.  

> 
> > I have no interest in network cards, since we have 
> > file transfer cables.  Could the entire ETHERNET 
> > section be omitted?
> 
> Yes.  BTW, when you are running "make config", if you
> answer the question with a ? (instead of a Y or N),
> it will give you context-sensitive documentation.
> 
> > Can printer support be built into the kernel instead 
> > of using modules?
> 
> Yes.  Just answer those questions with Y instead of M.
> 
> > How about support for whatever the dialing program uses?  
> 
> slhc and ppp.  Yes.
> 
> > That would simplify use of BL2, no need to load modules 
> > even automatically.
> 
> For people that use it, yes.  For people that don't, it
> bloats the kernel unnecessarily.

I thought you said module loading capacity made the kernel larger.
Would it make it larger to be able to load modules, or to be able to print 
without modules?  I mainly use BL2 to go online so would want that to be 
included without the need for modules.  

> 
> > No need for a busmouse module.  Do we need NTFS module?  
> 
> Those modules are there for the people who need them.  If
> they are not useful for you, leave them out of your custom
> kernel.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven


I am STILL working on compiling lyxn with openssl.  First I need to 
compile openssl and it failed make test because I need to compile bc to 
test with....  The kernel can wait - what you provided works fine.

Does linux automatically use all available memory?  We notice that DOS 
with emm386 is only using 32M of about 200M on one computer when we 
compile with DJGPP.  Another computer with 80M is only making 64M of it 
available.  Not that we need more than 64M or even that much but we have 
it so we put it in.