Depends on your perspective I suppose. One good reason might be that it means more hardware is supported. A bad one might be that it increases the overall attack surface from a security point of view.
My opinion is this isn’t a problem. There’s a lot of hardware out there, and the vast majority of that code isn’t going to be loaded into any one kernel installation.
is this a good thing or an issue? I just play RuneScape -~-
An awful lot of that growth is drivers. Consequence of being a monokernel.
Depends on your perspective I suppose. One good reason might be that it means more hardware is supported. A bad one might be that it increases the overall attack surface from a security point of view.
My opinion is this isn’t a problem. There’s a lot of hardware out there, and the vast majority of that code isn’t going to be loaded into any one kernel installation.
An issue for sure. Larger code is never good.