From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 15:59:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBF537B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 016516ACBC; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:29:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:29:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christoph Sold Cc: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Recompile FreeBSD kernel Message-ID: <20010712082922.A44331@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3B4BD705.16A4D2BF@pacific.net.sg> <3B4C45CD.E8171322@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4C45CD.E8171322@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:25:49PM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 11 July 2001 at 14:25:49 +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > > Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong schrieb: >> >> Hi ; >> I would like to add an additional options into FBSD kernel . Can I >> add addtional options into the kernel without recompile ? Please >> advise > > Do you like to add an addition kernel option in the kernel source code, > or do you want to activate a kernel option not in the GENERIC kernel? > > Anyway, in both cases a recompile is neccessary. The only exception > from that rule is kernel loadable modules like filesystems. That's a big exception. In fact, you can add a large amount of functionality without recompiling. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message