Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 22:07 UTC, submitted by diegocg
After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, variable process argument length, SLUB is now the default slab allocator, SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support, the 'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall, lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new drivers and many other minor features and fixes.
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2005-07-06
I agree there has to be a full blown kernel the first time the system is runnning. Thereafter a simple parse from lsmod
lsmod:
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Module Size Used by
vmnet 38416 13
vmblock 15520 3
vmmon 929636 0
nvidia 6211568 24
i2c_core 21632 1 nvidia
snd_intel8x0 29852 1
snd_bt87x 14792 0
snd_ac97_codec 89632 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 63620 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_bt87x,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 20100 1 snd_pcm
snd 37060 7 snd_intel8x0,snd_bt87x,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 11272 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm
ac97_bus 6016 1 snd_ac97_codec
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should be enough to build a kernel with a leaner config.
So I'm afraid that in the end the human is needed to project everything that would be needed in a kernel.
Yeah a human to code.