From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "rob pike, esq." To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/src/^(9 boot)^/pc/memory.c Message-ID: <215053804.1032352923@[10.149.2.206]> In-Reply-To: <20020918061825.B6063@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20020918061825.B6063@cackle.proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:42:05 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ee4eaad6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 That wasn't my point. My point was that I don't consider an absolute necessity that every possible device be supported. I favor simplicity and maintainability over universality. -rob --On Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:18 AM +0200 Lucio De Re wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:13:59PM -0400, rob pike, esq. wrote: >> How much complexity should the kernel have - and require people to >> maintain - for low-deployment devices? >> > Only as much as can't be put somewhere else. That's the problem with > a monolithic kernel: _everything_ that needs to be in there will > eventually appear in it. > > Was it dhog that was working on loadable kernel drivers? > > ++L