Kernel for Dual Core

[Andrew Brampton]

From: "Mark Ovens" <parish at magichamster.com>

> The advantage of building a custom kernel is that you remove anything your 
> system doesn't have which saves time when booting as the kernel won't be 
> probing for devices that it will never find - for example. mine is an 
> all-SCSI system so my kernel doesn't have any IDE or floppy devices in 
> it - and it makes the kernel smaller (although that isn't really an issue 
> these days).


With FreeBSD and Linux I don't spend much time customising my kernel incase 
I remove a module that I actually need. Does anyone know of a tool which can 
probe for your devices and then suggest which modules can safely be 
disabled?

thanks
Andrew