Philipp Thomas wrote:
On the other hand it did away with the mess of umpteen different kernels (one kernel for every kind of hard disk controller).
And how often do you you switch disk controllers on your end user system? You are describing HW test environment, which will need features offered by initrd, or a very large kernel. However, most users don't change controllers daily -- maybe every few years. For those, you *offer* them the option to rebuild the kernel with their needed-boot modules and install that to disk to enable direct boot. Just as DKMS builds and configures kernel modules, unique to a user's system, so it has and could again be done for a kernel. The option to generate kernel with static modules for your boot HW, isn't a new idea... many unix vendors 15-20 years ago offered it as an optional optimization. Yet this generation seems to have forgotten about that option. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org