▲ 526 ▼ Valve adds CD-ROM drive support to Steam Frame kernel, took less than ten minutes — update comes one day after user requests for capability in the Steam Community forum (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 5 days ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 84 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] esc@piefed.social -3 points 5 days ago (2 children) How unloaded kernel module can slow boot time? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] klankin@piefed.ca 23 points 5 days ago Still needs to be read from disk/flash, for the kernel to know it exists. And more relevantly every module has a number of dependencies that will all contribute to size/boot times in their own way. Maybe even milliseconds is giving it too much, but bloat is really important especially near the release of new hardware. I imagine the last thing anyone was worried about in crunch time was if they enabled enough random hardware in their config file. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 1 point 5 days ago They disabled them to save boot time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] klankin@piefed.ca 23 points 5 days ago Still needs to be read from disk/flash, for the kernel to know it exists. And more relevantly every module has a number of dependencies that will all contribute to size/boot times in their own way. Maybe even milliseconds is giving it too much, but bloat is really important especially near the release of new hardware. I imagine the last thing anyone was worried about in crunch time was if they enabled enough random hardware in their config file. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 1 point 5 days ago They disabled them to save boot time. permalink fedilink source parent