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On Jul 24, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Rui Paulo wrote:

> On 24 Jul 2013, at 08:29, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On Jul 23, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>=20
>>> .. I'd rather we just make modules support work, and start shipping
>>> stripped down kernels w/ modules.
>>=20
>> I've used modules; as far as I can tell, they work just fine.
>> The status quo is historical legacy.
>>=20
>>> We have loader support for arm, right? :)
>>=20
>> Would someone please commit the change to the
>> RPi kernel config to enable all modules by default?
>>=20
>> That will let us verify the current status before we start
>> removing things that are currently static.
>=20
>=20
> Done, r253634.


Rui:

Thanks!

Hiren and others:

Please try experimenting with modules on RPi and
BeagleBone and let folks here know what works and
doesn't work.  You should be able to:
 * Load modules manually
 * Load them from loader.conf
 * Load them from rc.conf
 * =85 etc ...

Tim