[plug] SATA boot problem

[Adrian Chadd]

> Oh, I absolutely agree, having done kernel development before.  I have a lot
> of sympathy for that.  I was more curious why Adrian asserted that *all*
> Gentoo users ...

I was just taking a little bit of fun. This is gentoo after all and there
have been a few examples of some of their users taking things a little
too far:

http://funroll-loops.info/

> Well, I still don't quite know what he was asserting.  I don't imagine it was
> "all Gentoo users are too silly to keep around a kitchen sink kernel", as you
> nicely provide an example to the contrary.

Que?

> I just can't guess what else is was supposed to be. :)
> 
> > but you ALWAYS have a copy of the kitchensink kernel to choose or fall back
> > on (you dont have to have just 1 kernel, esp while tinkering) Thats why we
> > have boot loaders :)
> 
> *nod*  Aside from the fact that a kernel with (almost) all the drivers build
> as modules costs you almost nothing ??? a bit of CPU during the build, a touch
> of extra load time for a bigger initramfs ??? the more you tie your kernel to
> your current hardware the more you waste your time, and you make your life
> harder when it comes to hardware changes.

Cool. Right until you have a hardware failure and the only thing you have to plug
it into is something a little smaller. Then you go "shit, I have this p3
but I can't run it on that because I compiled with flags that enable optimisations
for the very latest core 2 stepping."

I gave up doing that, and I started writing sensibly unbloated software.



adrian