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On 11/17/2011 10:57 AM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> 
> IMHO it would be overkill for such a small embedded platform to provide
> device drivers as modules.
> 

You have it exactly backwards.  It should be possible to have these
drivers available in a generic kernel without burdening all systems in
the world.

	-hpa

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