Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:52:42 -0500 From: Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@freebsd.org> To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf Message-ID: <CAGaYwLcibUVY1C8BMUjRart75HBNMu4W-ddjSK5pHb3JYhf1Gg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130907081743.GB95723@zxy.spb.ru> References: <201309062024.r86KOMqm059838@svn.freebsd.org> <CAGaYwLcV8hS%2Bk_B2xozcqfdz5TcJ%2BgyN=6whO8wJ_6puW1_njg@mail.gmail.com> <20130907081743.GB95723@zxy.spb.ru>
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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:46:11PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > > > Author: bryanv > > > Date: Fri Sep 6 20:24:21 2013 > > > New Revision: 255323 > > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255323 > > > > > > Log: > > > Add vmx device to the i386 and amd64 NOTES files > > > > > > > > FWIW - I'm on the fence about adding vmx to GENERIC for 10.0. IIRC, > > VMware's vmxnet3 driver returns BUS_PROBE_VENDOR so the two drivers > should > > coexist. This is assuming VMware updates the driver for 10 ... which I'm > > guessing isn't likely and was a large reason I added this driver in the > > first place. > > Why we don't switch (in 10.0) to minimal GENERIC and all driver loaded > as modules (/boot/loader.conf)? This is reduce memory (by easy unloading > unneed > drivers/modules), space (by reducing GENERIC+symbols size about 100M), > space on install media too (100M + compressed 100M), build time (not > need to build some modules twice) and add ability to easy > update/bugfix modules w/o reboot. > > After last updates to bootloader loading many modules enought fast. > I already switched (for me) to this setup and it's fine for me. > The holy grail would be for the loader to automatically detect and load what is needed/supported, but this has been talked and beaten to death in the past.
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