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[Richard Jennings]

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Modular would certainly be better than making a different kernel for 
every need. Sorry for adding to the noise, I was just thinking about 
my own needs. ;-)

As long as I have your attention though.... Have you thought about 
putting Eric Anderson's "silent" patch into the kernel. Eric posted a 
patch to the linux embedded list last month that works great. Just 
give lilo the line "debug=2" and all the kernel messages go away. 
I've enclosed it in case you want it.

Richard


>Hi,
>
>The kernel is certainly a thorn in my side so to speak. The idea of an
>embedded kernel is to have it as small as possible. Yet, every platform
>has different requirements and demands different kernel modules, etc.
>
>One option would be to allow one to build a custom kernel by giving an
>option in pwlconfig that extracts kernel sources, and drops into a kernel
>configuration screen that allows for building a custom kernel. Now this is
>the Cadillac that might not be feasable.
>
>Another option would be to reduce the number of special purpose kernels
>and insead build a highly modularized kernel with virtually all options.
>Very similar to the stock RedHat kernel. It would be up to the individual
>user to deselect unneeded modules to conserve space. I tend to lean
>towards this solution. Realizing that there are a number of people using
>PWL already I don't want to make drastic changes to the kernel between
>releases. So depending on my time availability I plan on either adding a
>full blown all options 2.214 kernel or skip any changes to 2.2.14 and go
>right to the latest 2.4 beta kernel.
>
>Comments would be quite welcome here :)
>
>Another feature still in the works is a dependency checking routine in
>pwlconfig. I had one figured out and added it to one of the pwl_target
>(rd_functions) but never completed it. I used to have depended libs as
>part of the packages but that changed when rpm came in. So now we need a
>routine that checks the installed system for missing or unneeded libs...
>
>TTYL,
>Adi
>
>
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Richard Jennings wrote:
>
>>  Can you add nfs support to the kernel? I'm trying to mount a remote
>>  filesystem but nfs is not supported by the kernel.
>>
>>  Richard
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