Kernel Suggestions

John Taylor (john@verdi.cviog.uga.edu)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:17:31 -0400 (EDT)

I noticed several things that can save a few pages of memory in the kernel.
The scsi cd-rom driver has support for multisessions cdroms. (I think there
was also special support for several cdroms, which could be queried to if
the user had these.) I edited this out of the driver and when I insmod'd my
cdrom driver, lsmod reported it to be 1 page smaller. I also did the same
with the floppy drive patch that is floating around. It supports only sizes
of 360, 720, 1.2, and 1.44. When I insmod'd this it also saved 1 page of
memory.

Would it be possible for someone to have as the next question under "Support
for scsi cdrom", a sub-question "Support for multisession cdroms" ? Also
maybe the same type of thing could be done for under "Support for floppy
drive". An even further optimization would be "Support for 3.5 inch" and
"Support for 5.25 inch". I am not knowledgable enough to do this myself,
otherwise I would.

Finally, I don't know if this is worth the trouble. But you could ask
questions for individual support for MDA, EGA, and VGA.

Just my 2 cents worth...
Great job with Linux 1.3. It is looking great!

John Taylor

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