[Gllug] HIGHMEM

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:52:19PM +0100, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> initrd (initial ramdisk) loads a ramdisk containing modules and some other
> stuff at the same time as the kernel using lilo or grub. This then insmods
> these modules allowing the hardware to be accessed for the rest of the boot
> process and beyond.

I don't really see the benefit though for a single system, if you're
building a custom kernel anyway, and the kernel's likely to change at
least as frequently as the hardware...

Some drivers don't work as modules, some only work as modules, but apart
from that...

(IDE I hear, can be a bit flaky as modules)

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