Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:32:52 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, howard0su@gmail.com Subject: Re: Modularize kernel Message-ID: <20060908103252.g6i9y74pc8gcwww4@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20060908.001045.1683322424.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <f126fae00609062247n62aaf3d7tac8f3980eeb148fb@mail.gmail.com> <20060907.153239.1219861549.imp@bsdimp.com> <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com> <20060908.001045.1683322424.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Quoting "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> (from Fri, 08 Sep 2006 =20 00:10:45 -0600 (MDT)): > In message: <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com> > "Howard Su" <howard0su@gmail.com> writes: > : On 9/8/06, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > : > I routinely boot a minimal kernel and kldload everything. this gives > : > me a kernel about 1/3 the size of a full GENERIC build, but at the > : > price of needing to keep my modules up to date. > : > : For -STABLE tree, i think it is easy since ABI is fixed. However what > : I proposed is pushing this effort to let most user to use module > : instead of rebuilding the kernel. > > I guess what I'm saying is that with a minimal kernel + all the > modules we have, you have that today. We should provide a minimal kernel config along GENERIC and NOTES/LINT =20 then. This would show what people need at least in their kernel. Additionally freebsd-update could maybe extended to provide updates =20 for a minimal kernel too and people would have less reasons to build =20 their own kernel. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Not all who own a harp are harpers. =09=09-- Marcus Terentius Varro http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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