[2385] in Release_Engineering
[larry@ecf.UUCP@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: Re: lack of modem control on MVAX-II with DHV running 4.3bsd]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri Jun 29 16:04:47 1990
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 16:04:24 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: jis@MIT.EDU
Cc: jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU, bug-kernel@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rel-eng@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Jeffrey I. Schiller's message of Mon, 25 Jun 90 15:30:32 -0400 <9006251930.AA27363@osiris.MIT.EDU>
I would like to second Jeff's comment that we should punt any
unnecessary drivers and options from our kernels. People are
complaining about how slow our machines are and how little memory they
have; big kernels don't help. As I see it, the kernels we need are:
1 VS2 standard workstation configuration
2 VS2 video configuration
3 VS2000 standard workstation configuration
4 VS3100 standard workstation configuration
5 VS3100 DIALUP configuration
6 VAX 3600/3900 server configuration
7 RT standard workstation configuration
8 RT video configuration
9 RT server (ATHENS drive) configuration
10 PMAX standard workstation configuration
I may have missed some, and some may be combinable (such as 7 & 9).
If rel-eng thinks this is too many kernels for them to support, I'd be
willing to have them just "officially" support some subset, as long as
a stable set of sources are available for others to make custom
kernels. Perhaps we should talk about this before 7.1.
-Mark
