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Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] shipping kernels with default modules?
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On Jun 11, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 6/11/2011 2:21 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>=20
>> Has there been any further thought as of late about shipping kernels
>> with modules only by default, rather than monolithic kernels?
>>=20
>> I tried this experiment a couple years ago and besides a little
>> trickery with ACPI module loading, it worked out fine.
>>=20
>> Is there any reason we aren't doing this at the moment? Eg by having =
a
>> default loader modules list populated from the kernel config file?
>=20
> Has anyone benchmarked monolithic vs. modular? I think that should be =
done before we move in this direction.

I haven't noticed a difference, but I haven't done any specific =
benchmarking.

Warner