From: Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>
To: Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@laposte.net>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:47:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F72F1F6.1040007@longlandclan.hopto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064491863.17990.10.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t>
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Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
| Le jeu 25/09/2003 à 13:15, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
|
|>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
|>
|>>Great, now a standard mass-market computer is an embedded device. I can
|>>(and will) certainly do it, but this looks like a ticking bomb to me.
|>>...
|>
|>What does it cost if an unneeded driver is included in your kernel?
|>Perhaps a few kB?
|
|
| And all the bugs of the unneeded driver.
| I didn't notice this because I have the habit to run diff between my old
| and new config. I noticed it because on 2.6.0-test-bk9 or 10 I had my
| boot logs full of warnings associated to PS/2 input.
|
I presonally would like to be able to choose if I want to use the PS/2
driver or not. Mainly because a couple of machines I have here, use the
old AT keyboard (DIN-5 connection, not PS/2 or USB), and have <128MB
RAM. For instance, how many 386 computers have you seen with at least
32MB RAM & PS/2 or USB sockets? [1]
(And yes, I probably would be crazy enough to go put Linux 2.6 on to a
386, I've considered installing Gentoo on one actually -- just to see
how long it takes :-D)
Footnotes:
1. I've only seen one exception to this, that is one old (also dead)
Olivetti 386 laptop which had PS/2 keyboard & mouse sockets.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 18:32 Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-25 7:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-25 8:09 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-25 11:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-25 11:36 ` Ron Verhees
2003-09-25 12:11 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-25 13:47 ` Stuart Longland [this message]
2003-09-25 14:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-25 1:07 Frédéric L. W. Meunier
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