From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 7:22:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.happcontrols.com (mail.happcontrols.com [12.15.19.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180EB37B6ED for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 07:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CONDOR.happcontrols.com (sniper.happcontrols.com [12.15.19.193]) by mail.happcontrols.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g4GEH4fO012875 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:17:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020516085010.02818ef0@mail.happcontrols.com> X-Sender: ben@mail.happcontrols.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:17:04 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ben Kadish Subject: Kernel build question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.10 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 I'm not having any problems. I just have a question about general kernel design: It is my impression that _GENERALLY_ the only reason one needs to build various devices and modules into the kernel itself, rather than as modules, is if those modules are required to boot the machine (e.g. scbus would have to be compiled into the kernel to boot from a scsi drive). Is this generally correct? I suspect that many of the pseudo-devices are a different story. Regards, ---------- Ben Kadish Ben.Kadish@happcontrols.com Network Analyst Happ Controls, Inc. DSA Public Key 86EEC8F6 available from http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net ---------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message