From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 15 12:25:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC82937B409 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5FJOm187752; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:24:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Andrew R. Reiter" Subject: RE: sysorg: sys/modules Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/... 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 -- 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