YDL off the cutting edge

[sloopy]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:06, R. Hirschfeld wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:59:46 -0500
> > From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55 at pobox.com>
> > 

> I guess the crux of my question is whether there is any chance that
> TerraSoft will include the necessary (unsupported) drivers in future
> generic versions of the kernel.
> 
> Although I gather that somebody is likely to make a kernel available
> for download that has Old World support included, there are a couple
> of things I don't like about this approach:
> 
> - To configure my own kernel, I need to know exactly what to include
>   to keep the Old World support, and that information may or may not
>   be supplied by the person who provides the kernel.  If it's included
>   in the standard generic configuration, there's nothing to do.
> 
> - It requires trust of an additional party (the kernel is a
>   particularly nasty place for a Trojan).
> 
> Ray

you can d/l terrasofts kernel source, and use it, they dont take out
stuff from the source, they just dont compile in the specific drivers
needed for OW support (i.e. the MACE enet driver, the MESH scsi driver
etc) the kernel source is for the most part the kernel source, it is
just how it is compiled. to take the config TSS uses and make it OW
compatible is just a matter of enableing several option in the config,
and then compiling...

sloopy.