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From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, hosokawa@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [patch] Moving modules to MFSROOT in -STABLE (x86)
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  Sysinstall has had the ability to load additional modules from
/stand/modules for quite some time, but the functionality to populate
/stand/modules on the MFSROOT floppy was never MFCed.  A good
description of hosokawa's drivers.conf functionality is available here
:

   http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/driver-floppy/

  I think that we should merge this functionality for the release to
solve our floppy overflow problems.  A patch for src/release/Makefile
(partial MFC of r.578) and src/release/scripts/dokern.sh, along with a
very minimal drivers.conf file can be downloaded here :

   http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/patches.html

  With this change, the wireless Ethernet devices are removed from the
boot kernel, and the modules are placed in /stand/modules of the
MFSROOT.  If you switch the debug screen of sysinstall, you will
notice a couple of 'DEBUG: Loading module if_xx.ko (description)'
lines.

  I've placed kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images in my freefall patches
directory as well, in case anyone wants to play with this without
building a full release.

  Comments?  Any objections to me committing this to RELENG_4 this
evening? =20

	Thanks,
	- Murray

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