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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)
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[-] klankin@piefed.ca 20 points 1 day 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.

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