From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 11 09:51:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233DE1065676 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:51:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89A38FC15 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so3156715gxk.13 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:51:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1DQOoLSH+7rtBM2VlISeNQHjZn4v3rzkaprpKDAOR1s=; b=V4HcMslT6V8bd0mkMnq90En+2NrISoEIknLid6XuFBOzQBhN/WZUBj6Wzaiobgrf8W iJc2wOBVWabQj4aLCpVCAbjZFghbHQG7Vl4jJcWxzqvsaKv9F5A0M37Y6GqZ/R7u7pN0 M0byMj1d2AXf3oalFUIdrIGzR+1XLUXiSKUK8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=dYRqCKZCf9r73nuVxB1DAkGAQxRieUCSnZ3/K1qt8ra4bBxz6Y3KivZI+FwHNKj2EK K4NIUyEHfhQ4q+Nh15o1t0fEED8N92ZEPWK6ezraqX8OebalU3s5ZHNy3Yj85Gr0dcD7 TP9Wsq2sv1uNEu0WM7fw7fbCiJptbQ1UKax5k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.74.17 with SMTP id w17mr4067589yba.274.1307784080815; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.216.3 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:21:20 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: s-lWIVYwV8RHGjR_pTxYCyi053w Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [RFC] shipping kernels with default modules? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:51:03 -0000 Hi guys, Has there been any further thought as of late about shipping kernels with modules only by default, rather than monolithic kernels? I tried this experiment a couple years ago and besides a little trickery with ACPI module loading, it worked out fine. 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? Adrian