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Subject: Re: Modularize kernel
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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.

Warner