EVMS changes direction
Posted Nov 8, 2002 11:36 UTC (Fri) by
Wol (guest, #4433)
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EVMS changes direction
This would require all kernels to be linked with an initramfs image, which doesn't really improve anything. Is the kernel really going this way, and why?
AFAICT, yes
It makes for a far smaller kernel, as loading modules requires loads of user-space or call-once code, and this means all this crud can be run in user space, and then dropped. With current kernels, I don't know what the figure is, but it wouldn't surprise me if 50% of the RAM occupied by the kernel is "dead space", and the kernel guys want to get rid of it.
This discovery etc code is a classic example - it only runs on boot, so why should it be in the kernel, cluttering up RAM for evermore?
Cheers,
Wol
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