Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

> 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.

Much argument, lacking code, amounting to little.

None of what you're saying solves the problem at hand.  The RAMDISK
kernel must not have different drivers than the GENERIC one does.