Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:24:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: RE: sysorg: sys/modules Message-ID: <XFMail.010615122451.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010615000243.39391A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On 15-Jun-01 Andrew R. Reiter wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> make sys/modules obsolete. However, it would be good if all the code >> (screen >> savers, etc.) moved out of sys/modules and into more appropriate locations. >> Also, there's no good reason why things like screen savers can't be compiled >> into a static kernel as well. > > I'd like to see the ability for certain pieces of the kernel to be > compiled as KLDs in the config file. Then, there could be a somewhat > clean movement from sys/modules -> sys/<whereever appropriate>... perhaps > this suggestion is no good? That is almost exactly what the new config will do. The kernel itself is just a KLD that includes the "standard" module. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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