Re: adding Soekris 4801 to supported architectures

[Alexander Bochmann <ab_(_at_)_lists_(_dot_)_gxis_(_dot_)_de>]

...on Sun, May 30, 2004 at 07:03:48PM -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

 > (These kernels keep getting bigger and bigger -- do I *need* to
 > carry around drivers for 15 SCSI cards and 30ish ethernets on a
 > box with SISx3 and no SCSI?  But openbsd seems module averse.

Even if some of the OpenBSD guys don't seem to like 
it, I regularly strip down my kernels (starting from 
GENERIC) to exactly the hardware I have in the system.
Never tried modules, though.

I does make some difference, especially on systems 
without all the modern stuff like USB:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2289574 May 11 19:55 /bsd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5075204 May  3 10:32 /bsd.GENERIC

(That's a 3.5 box.)

If something goes wrong, I always can try to reproduce 
it with a GENERIC kernel.

Alex.