From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 14 11:29:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C8B37B66D for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:27:56 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9EITCi89817; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:29:11 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: moncrg@ma.ultranet.com, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: /sys/i386/conf/MODULAR = /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC - /modules? Message-ID: <20001014112911.X25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <39E8B0E9.A8B29DE9@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39E8B0E9.A8B29DE9@ma.ultranet.com>; from moncrg@ma.ultranet.com on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:15:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:15:53PM -0500, Gregory D. Moncreaff wrote: > given the kld/modules system > I was wondering why a Modular version of GENERIC > has not come into existance that would basically > consist of GENERIC minus anything available > in /sys/modules [see /boot/defaults/loader.conf]? > > presumanly GENERIC should then become STATIC > since everything is statically linked in? > > any thoughts? It would mean maintaining an extra kernel configuration. You would still need a kernel with "the works" directly compiled in for the install process. Or the install process would need to be completely redone to load modules. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message