Hello there, On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) : > > Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile > > the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? > > Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris > > Usually you don't have to recompile your kernel under Linux. Just use > the kernel-package that contains the kernel with all the modules you > need. You don't HAVE to, but if you want a really fast, memory saving kernel, you SHOULD do it and exclude everything, you don't need. (Installation kernel was almost twice as large as the kernel I compiled by myself, as I could exclude SCSI-support and a few other things). Sure not a point of much interest on those beasts with 128 Mb RAM sold today, but on a computer with 8 Mb RAM, a large kernel eats up your vital memory. So in some way, really an optimization thing. > I guess you could recompile your Windows kernel too _if_ you have > access to the Windows source files and own a compiler. Right. Regards, Daniel
