[plug] SATA boot problem

[Daniel Pittman]

Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> writes:

>> 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:

Ah. ;)  Yeah, my having no sense of humor would definitely explain my
confusion about your comments.

[...]

>> *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 think we are in violent agreement here, actually. :)

Regards,
        Daniel