In article <1992Aug13.195406.23296@colorado.edu>, drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
| In article <1992Aug13.133313.15221@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
| >In article <1992Aug12.173012.17552@colorado.edu>, drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
| >
| >And the person trying to install on a new machine can't rebuild the
| >kernel, so s/he needs another working system to get going. Bleh.
| >Relocation at load time might take 1-2 sec of cpu. Big deal. Without
| >loadable device drivers you must have a working system to generate a new
| >kernel.
| 
| Most Unices distribute the distribution kernel as a generic kernel,
| ie one with support for all device drivers compiled in.  It gets a little
| bloated, but if you can boot it, you can run anything.

  Sounds to me like you think the Linux kernel as distributed contains
all the devices anyone would ever want to use, so there's no need for
being able to support new devices.

  It also sounds like you're trying to say that you think it's too
hard, and you personally don't need it, so you want to convince
everyone it's a bad idea.

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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.