From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:47:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:47:15 -0400 Received: from sal.qcc.sk.ca ([198.169.27.3]:1551 "HELO sal.qcc.sk.ca") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:47:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:47:02 -0600 From: Charles Cazabon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010518094702.A21217@qcc.sk.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010518093414.A21164@qcc.sk.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from david.lang@digitalinsight.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:30:07AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Lang wrote: > > Whether this is desirable or not is debatable. The big question is: why > > on earth would Aunt Tillie _want_ to compile a kernel at all, let alone > > re-configure one? If she's using Linux, she's installing her > > distribution's pre-compiled kernel, and has no need for anything else. > why is it that so many people seem to think that it's a good thing to only > use precompiled kernels from the distro? a kernel tuned for a particular > machine can boot faster and run faster then a 'stock' kernel. I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm saying that the 5% performance increase that results is not something that the average "I just want to use the system" will even notice, let alone care about. > unless you want to replace the kernel compile config options with a > similar sized menu to select between precompiled kernels with the correct > options (never mind what that will do to the size of the distros to ship > so many kernels) They don't need to ship a mass of kernels. Modern distributions probably don't need to worry about shipping three or four modular kernels. Any user who cares about the minor performance benefits of a custom-configured kernel is going to reconfigure and recompile regardless of how dumbed-down the interface is. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. -----------------------------------------------------------------------