> yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:59:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > I would really like
> > > to boot up monolitic kernel on my laptop and _still_ use pcmcia ne2k.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Faster. Smaller. Fewer TLB entries.
> Arguably by negligable amounts.
A common and imho prety bogus argument for monolithical kernels and
against modules is security.
Ralf
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