18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
2:14 p.m.
On January 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM Adam <geekdundee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Although that would require recompiling the kernel just to
install/uninstall drivers. I do understand loadable modules are
supported but I'm not sure this applies to drivers. And if it does, I
doubt it would apply to all drivers.
No recompile. It applies to all drivers for PCI and USB devices and huge bunch
of other things. Almost everything is loadable, including all routing tricks.
job at distracting both of us from the issue I was
talking about:
Very much.
If Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel,
admitted it is
getting bloaty, then perhaps this means something for the direction the
Linux kernel is going? I mean who cannot expect to see an increase of
code size as new features are added. Particularly those which many
won't be using.
Oh, true.
I have indeed heard about uCLinux - I was suggesting
it probably
doesn't even use the mainline kernel, otherwise it would definitely be
bigger than 100KB then.
uCLinux uses the mainline kernel. And is never as small as 100kb.
Embedded systems today using uCLinux has at least 2 megabytes of RAM,
often 8 or more.
The rest I am just cutting... what are we discussing here exactly?
If I go back to the topic somewhat:
As for HP WebOS on ReactOS - if some random guy wants to port it to
run atop of Reactos/Windows instead of Linux, good for him. I don't
see active ReactOS developers dropping everything they are doing to
do that instead, so you don't need to fear that.
best regards,
Jakob