Kernel for boot floppies

[Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam <vaidhy@loonys.net>]

Hi All,

I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies.
I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new 
installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the
issues I have is that to read the network drivers, we need to provide support
for the IDE and SCSI subsystems..

Should those be a separate modules by themselves or should I try to compile them
into the kernel itself? Then we will have two versions of the kernel, one for 
IDE and one for SCSI as we do now.. 

Further, does the SCSI support for NCRXX cards alone just enough ? I do not 
have a scsi machine and would appreciate the inputs..

Regards,
Vaidhy