Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:10:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: howard0su@gmail.com Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modularize kernel Message-ID: <20060908.001045.1683322424.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <f126fae00609062247n62aaf3d7tac8f3980eeb148fb@mail.gmail.com> <20060907.153239.1219861549.imp@bsdimp.com> <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com>
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"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
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