(Please keep me CC'd as I do not normally read the list)

Anyhow, what I would like to see is that the chipset support get moved into kernel modules, preferably auto-loadable when a given vendor is detected, but for starters that could be left out. This is the way to go for vendor supplied modules as well. I have a least 2 vendors that are looking into that way of providing support for new chipsets. For a small kernel you just load the module(s) you need and voila.

I have VIP in that direction, but its not finished yet, but spiitting up things is pretty trivial for the most part, except a few gotchas here and there that will make at least autoloading a wee bit tricky.

I guess the tedious part is to get all the code moved around into seperate files, how the actual compile/link/load should be done is a minor part that can be added when the seperaion is done. However, I do have most of that in place in a tree here, so thats more or less done already, I just need to pull out the right tree here and that part should be dealt with more or less.