Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 07:47:42AM -0400, Tim Connolly wrote:
> > Ah, I see! Never ran into any situation where I needed modules, so I was just
> > curious. Thanks- Tim
> >
>
> That's funny , I never ran into any situation where I needed to compile
> everything in to the kernel :-) I prefer to compile everything possible
> as modules.
>
> It is even possible to compile the drivers for the controller for
> the root disk as modules; you put the modules needed for boot on
> a RAM disk image and get the kernel to load them from there. With
> this, you can build a kernel image which should suit everyone
> (except sound support). Getting Linux into commercial users' hands
> will be difficult if people have to recompile the kernel ever.
>
> Hamish
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