From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:00 -0400 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:867 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 17:57:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3B06EBAF.20407@kalifornia.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:54:55 -0700 From: Ben Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >>Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for >>386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . >>Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in >>in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at >>Microsoft for doing it, then turn around and do the same thing. >> > >No people bitch at microsoft for precisely the opposite - not including a >way to build fully optimised setups for each cpu type - not including all the >stuff that is needed (try a generic win2k install on a vaio one day) > >I think you have your facts backwards > >Alan > No, my point was, if I don't have SCSI or RAID on this box, I don't want them to be built into the kernel! In other words, "stuff I don't need, just like Microsoft". -b -- "One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet." - Carl Sagan