From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 11:21:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 1C8FD1065674; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:21:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:21:50 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Message-ID: <20110612112150.GB62801@FreeBSD.org> References: <201106110908.p5B98kkE066709@svn.freebsd.org> <75DAEF7E-F43E-427E-8AFA-586E0B56D450@bsdimp.com> <20110611184549.GB3284@garage.freebsd.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110611184549.GB3284@garage.freebsd.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Adrian Chadd , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Joel Dahl , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Warner Losh Subject: Re: svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:21:50 -0000 On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:51:32PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:44:14AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > I think our best bet for 9 is to strip GENERIC to the bone and have a > > 'generic.conf' if you will that loads everything we compile in today. > > I think trasz@ tried that and there is a problem. Loading modules on > boot is very slow. If you try to load everything that GENERIC has as > modules the boot will take forever. Perhaps then we need to come up with something more intelligent, i.e. do not load everything trying to get maximum coverage of users' hardware, but load only required bits based on what we see on PCI bus (roughly speaking). > On all my servers and my laptop I use such minimalistic kernels and load > everything from modules. Yes, this is very convenient and IMHO the way to go. :-) ./danfe