Why not to run GENERIC kernels (was Re: 1/2" Tape Drive: Driver Needed)

Guy Harris auspex!guy at uunet.uu.net
Fri Jun 28 06:22:00 AEST 1991


>So what's wrong with simply running the GENERIC kernel on your Sun-4/300?

The fact that it probably wastes a fair bit of memory for all the device
drivers for devices you don't have on your machine?  If you have tons of
memory, it may not be a problem, but....




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