Hi Anders, * Anders Dahlqvist (dahlqvist@sundsvall.mail.telia.com) [20000106 19:08]:
What is the advantage whith RAM-disk support compiled into the kernel? Is this something I as an ordinary user can benefit from?
If you compile your own kernels, it depends. For us it had tremendous effect
in that it allowed us to cut down the number of kernels from about 28 to 5.
Of which one is a Pentium optimised one.
The benefit for a normal user IMO are:
1) no need to recompile the kernel for new hardware (if basic support has
been compiled into).
2) For older machines with no PnP support in BIOS, it would allow you to
run isapnp before loading the module. But this would be a bit more tricky
and not so easily achivable as simply adding modules to the initrd.
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Philipp Thomas