Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:19:02 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-processor Support Message-ID: <20011109061902.A39562@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <008c01c1688c$946e6ee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011108105102.55942.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com> <008c01c1688c$946e6ee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> writes: > m p writes: > > Do you know _why_ most of the FreeBSD people > > use customized kernels? > > Because much of what they want to do apparently cannot be enabled by simple > configuration switches at run-time (such as the change I desired above). Nope, not exactly. Because we like trimming our kernels to the absolutely necessary parts. For instance, if I count just the lines of GENERIC and LOCAL (the second being the configuration file I use for my own custom kernel), I see: $ wc -l GENERIC 236 GENERIC $ wc -l CHARON 119 CHARON Half of the devices supported by GENERIC are useless to me. So I rebuild my kernel to remove this code from my system's kernel. > > This is considered a normal and not risky task > > with FreeBSD. > > If it is just changing a configuration option, the risk probably > isn't too great. But sometimes you don't really know until the > system crashes. And, sorry, but FreeBSD is not magically immune to > this; no operating system is. No, but have you got any numbers to back this up? Hundreds of FreeBSD users have recompiled their kernels thousands of times. I somewhat find it hard to believe that they like crashing their systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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