Re: Kernel for boot floppies

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote:
> 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..

No you don't. The network drivers will be on the initrd, or read in from
floppy.

> 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.. 

Make everything modular. All we should need in the kernel is one
filesystem driver, and initrd support.

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