From: Casper BodenCummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IMHO, a better alternative to the large, best-endeavours kernel would be > to ship a really tight kernel and use the installation front-end to > configure additional support (in modules where possible or desirable).
The stripped-down kernel for 1.2 is currently 362K compressed, a good deal smaller than the generic one for 1.1 . And that was with AX.25 included in the kernel (because it's not modularized and I wanted to experiment with it). The final one will no doubt be smaller. As far as I can tell, everything that I left out of it is working in module form. However, some of the modules do not auto-configure the device addresses, while the linked in version of the same driver does. We might have to help the user a bit with this, but hopefully it will be less of a mess than the situation we have now, in which the generic kernel can't be made to work for everyone. Thanks Bruce