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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:47:34 +1000
From: Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>
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To: Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@laposte.net>
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Subject: Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?
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Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
| Le jeu 25/09/2003 ? 13:15, Adrian Bunk a ?crit :
|
|>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
|>
|>>Great, now a standard mass-market computer is an embedded device. I can
|>>(and will) certainly do it, but this looks like a ticking bomb to me.
|>>...
|>
|>What does it cost if an unneeded driver is included in your kernel?
|>Perhaps a few kB?
|
|
| And all the bugs of the unneeded driver.
| I didn't notice this because I have the habit to run diff between my old
| and new config. I noticed it because on 2.6.0-test-bk9 or 10 I had my
| boot logs full of warnings associated to PS/2 input.
|

I presonally would like to be able to choose if I want to use the PS/2
driver or not.  Mainly because a couple of machines I have here, use the
old AT keyboard (DIN-5 connection, not PS/2 or USB), and have <128MB
RAM.  For instance, how many 386 computers have you seen with at least
32MB RAM & PS/2 or USB sockets? [1]

(And yes, I probably would be crazy enough to go put Linux 2.6 on to a
386, I've considered installing Gentoo on one actually -- just to see
how long it takes :-D)

Footnotes:
1. I've only seen one exception to this, that is one old (also dead)
Olivetti 386 laptop which had PS/2 keyboard & mouse sockets.

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