Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:39:54 +0100 From: "Terrence Koeman" <terrence@mediamonks.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Subject: RE: Quick build of stripped-down kernel Message-ID: <2a449d3a0a37ab479c97962b436bb95c@mediamonks.net> In-Reply-To: <201111241439.HAA07258@lariat.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brett Glass > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 15:39 > > Everyone: > > Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 > kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower > ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for > this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the > kernel, they are all still built as loadable modules. The machines > in question will NEVER use those modules, so it's a waste of time > and disk space. > > How hard would it be to create a build target for "make" that would > avoid building the loadable modules and just leave them out of the > directory where the new kernel is placed after installation? I am > not intimately familiar with the cascade of makefiles that does the > build.... I could probably figure out what to tweak, but if someone > who is expert in this can help it would be appreciated. It would > save me countless hours. > Add makeoptions NO_MODULES=3Dyes to your KERNCONF. -- Regards, T. Koeman, MTh/BSc/BPsy; Technical Monk MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.com) Please quote relevant replies in correspondence.
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