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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.

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