Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

[Jason Downs <downsj@downsj.com>]

In message <199912021630.JAA00936@cvs.openbsd.org>,
	Theo de Raadt writes:
>CVSROOT:	/cvs
>Module name:	src
>Changes by:	deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org	1999/12/02 09:30:54
>
>Modified files:
>	sys/arch/i386/conf: RAMDISK RAMDISKB 
>
>Log message:
>in the tradeoff between NFS and more device drivers, NFS loses.  people who
>care about NFS should go do a kernel shrink.  get me 45K of kernel shrink
>in the ramdisk without using an #ifdef, and i'll put NFS back.

This seems really silly.  I almost never use anything *but* NFS from RAMDISK
kernels, I'm sure lots of other people are the same way.

There's this HUGE driver in RAMDISK, named `pcvt', while a much smaller one
(which actually works on non-VGA hardware) called `pccons' exists and would
work perfectly fine for installs.

I just did a test compile of two identical (GENERIC) kernels, one with vt0 and
one with pc0.  The pccons kernel is 48532 bytes smaller.

Of course, you've heard this argument from me before.

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