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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty
it's a kernel I compiled myself to get rid of the useless hardware drivers and all the bloatware there is in a generic Linux kernel. Recompiling a custom kernel can save up to 80% kernel space, saves resources (IRQ and memory) and leads to a non neglectable speed improvement.
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I find this surprising. Why would a kernel have hardware drivers directly imbedded inside of it? That makes little sense to me. My understanding of the Unix methodology is that a layered approach is taken, where the kernel is a relatively tiny component of an overall OS. Everything is layered on top of the kernel. Something sounds wrong with having drivers embedded inside a kernel.
Ah, but as my sig says "theory != practice"
What is the BSD kernel like?