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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:44:15 +0200
From:      xyz <harvey.two.face.kent@gmail.com>
To:        Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.bg>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lighten kernel
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Hi
Thank you for your answer
But "I can't believe" that lighten the kernel of useless drivers, saves 
only few bytes, by removing whole useless modules (sound, ata/sata, agp...).
Furthermore, I think about free space that could be save too, in the 
hard drive this time.
Why for the same configuration, linux kernel is lighter than the Freebsd 
kernel? (3.2mo ; 33.9mo)
And, can you release your patch please?

Best regards

On 04/21/10 21:02, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 4/21/10, xyz<harvey.two.face.kent@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Thank you for your answer.
>> But how I can only choose the intel agp driver, without all others by
>> puting "agp" in the kernel configuration file?
>>      
> Currently you can not pick only intel agp code, agp module have
> support for other vendors too.
> I made patch but it was never committed because it saves only few
> bytes of running kernel memory and thats all.
> Because bunch of new agp* modules are created it increase kernel size
> on disk, if you build all agp modules.
>
> But if you have very little memory you better not to use Xorg and
> direct rendering at all.
>    



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