custom kernels and heterogeneous hardware

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 22:22:01 EDT 2006


On 6/22/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 17:34, Ben Scott wrote:
>>  Sure.  But what does that get you?  (Other than memory savings.)
>
> The ability to kick and reload an ornery module!

  Ahhh.  Good point.  Come to think of it, I've done that with NIC and
SCSI [1] drivers on more than one occasion.

[1] Only works if the root disk isn't attached to the same type of
SCSI host adapter, of course.

-- Ben



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