script to create a monolithic kernel from a running modularized kernel 4371

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:58:12 +0200, A. Loonstra staggered into the Black Sun and said:

All right, a thing that can be tested objectively! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make a modular and a non-modular kernel, then get poweron-to-login: prompt times for both of them. I'd be interested to see the results.

? 80x25 16-color text is the default for the x86, sure, but that's just for the text consoles. X will work fine for almost every graphics card (in 2D) without any special kernel prodding. Since most users spend 99% of their time in X anyway, the whole framebuffer console thing isn't as useful as it once was. Me, I leave it as 80x25 default for simplicity's sake. I also reboot pretty rarely, so boot time isn't a factor for me. I just do suspend-to-RAM on my laptop and turn the monitor off on my desktop.

Yep. So if you use PPP, or have an nVidia graphics card, or a supported LoseModem, or a PCMCIA adapter, you're going to want to build a modular kernel *anyway*.

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