Indeed, I was going to switch to linux completely, but was scared away when I found I would HAVE to recompile the kernel just to support certain hardware I have.Z98 wrote:That's not the case from my experience. It's entirely possible to strip out so much of the kernel that you need to do a recompile to get additional hardware support.
is ti possible to recompile kernel like linux ?
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Re: is ti possible to recompile kernel like linux ?
Re: is ti possible to recompile kernel like linux ?
Also IIRC some drivers are designed such that they have to be compiled in. A given distro may need to make tradeoffs in what drivers they include, so as to avoid ones which cause problems...Z98 wrote:That's not the case from my experience. It's entirely possible to strip out so much of the kernel that you need to do a recompile to get additional hardware support.
On the flip side could including the drivers within the kernel improve the security situation?
Re: is ti possible to recompile kernel like linux ?
Perhaps. But it causes a lot of bloat.cppm wrote:Also IIRC some drivers are designed such that they have to be compiled in. A given distro may need to make tradeoffs in what drivers they include, so as to avoid ones which cause problems...Z98 wrote:That's not the case from my experience. It's entirely possible to strip out so much of the kernel that you need to do a recompile to get additional hardware support.
On the flip side could including the drivers within the kernel improve the security situation?
Re: is ti possible to recompile kernel like linux ?
Other way around. Drivers are very often the cause of bugs and instability because they're poorly written. Moving them outside the kernel into usermode or some such helps increase stability at the cost of performance.cppm wrote:Also IIRC some drivers are designed such that they have to be compiled in. A given distro may need to make tradeoffs in what drivers they include, so as to avoid ones which cause problems...Z98 wrote:That's not the case from my experience. It's entirely possible to strip out so much of the kernel that you need to do a recompile to get additional hardware support.
On the flip side could including the drivers within the kernel improve the security situation?
Re: is ti possible to recompile kernel like linux ?
Yep, in recent NT OSes, MS have tried to move a lot of drivers into usermode.Z98 wrote:Other way around. Drivers are very often the cause of bugs and instability because they're poorly written. Moving them outside the kernel into usermode or some such helps increase stability at the cost of performance.cppm wrote:Also IIRC some drivers are designed such that they have to be compiled in. A given distro may need to make tradeoffs in what drivers they include, so as to avoid ones which cause problems...Z98 wrote:That's not the case from my experience. It's entirely possible to strip out so much of the kernel that you need to do a recompile to get additional hardware support.
On the flip side could including the drivers within the kernel improve the security situation?
The big exception is Win32k, which is kernel mode simply to improve performance.
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