From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 11:54:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E80616A420 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:54:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamal_ckk@yahoo.com) Received: from web35702.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35702.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AAB443D53 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:54:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamal_ckk@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 77473 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Oct 2005 11:54:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=DMI7Dskm3sUn+4zufvNJpjCRhjiRP4YJx6YRxGvgyLedVGTn3ofrNr7z6WDLNnyqmigje2D2uTRPI8JHMGUIrjN9bVpU5QG9689aB8fdhU/EKXSD8yCPNWhTs8TvNc4HZGFlyrIHqtt5lMUEeCRxmav9VVBpgQy4DrvTot47VQQ= ; Message-ID: <20051027115411.77471.qmail@web35702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.79.62.15] by web35702.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:54:10 PDT Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: kamal kc To: freebsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd Subject: compiling the kernel faster X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:54:15 -0000 hello everybody, i am new to kernel programming. i am developing a compression/decompression functionality in the ip layer. i want to compile the kernel faster. it would be ok if the kernel doesn't have support for sound devices, or other devices like scsi,usb etc. because i would be using the compiled kernel for network data compression only. how could i do that. which source files and where in the makefiles do i make modifications ???? thanks for any suggestions kamal __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com