From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 10:28:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ntex.co.napa.ca.us (exmail.co.napa.ca.us [157.22.184.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE6A14E81 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DBoune@co.napa.ca.us) Received: by exmail.co.napa.ca.us with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:29:17 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Boune, Damian" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: LKM's (Kernel Options) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:29:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What exactly are LKM's? The concept I have currently is that they are an extension of the Kernel that can be loaded as needed. Hence the option "ATAPI_STATIC" would prevent ATAPI support from only being loaded when needed? Screen savers are LKM's because it would be silly to build them into the kernel as they would bloat it beyond acceptable levels, yet they need some sort of direct kernel integration? Is my concept correct? Why are the screensavers included with FreeBSD LKM's? Thank you, Damian Boune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message