Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:54 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Cc: h p <regnans@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Configuration of current kernel Message-ID: <20050312101854.695bf44d@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503102243240.12051@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <68b3483d050310012555c067f@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503102243240.12051@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:52:15 +0800 (WST) David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > Helge, > > Firstly, this really isn't the right list for these questions. You should > be sending them to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org instead. Indeed. > However, I'll do my best to help you out. > > Features like ext2fs (and, in fact, any file system that you don't want to > boot off), snd_emu101k, and just about anything that goes in your kernel > config (there are some notable exceptions, and you shouldn't leave out > anything that you need to get your machine booting) can be left out of > your kernel config file and instead loaded as modules. > > When you compile a kernel, it's a bit different to Linux, in that EVERY > kernel module gets compiled and can (usually) be kldloaded later. This > means that the compile takes a bit longer but you often don't have to > recompile to add things like new sound cards or network cards. But you can sett certain vars in /etc/make/conf to disable this behaviour. See for details: /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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