From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 10:11:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D591816A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:11:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp04.eresmas.com (asmtp04.eresmas.com [62.81.235.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5997743D41 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:11:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.56] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp04.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CrvlQ-00042K-Ql; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:11:36 +0100 Received: from [80.103.41.187] (helo=[80.103.41.187]) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CrvlO-0004h2-GI; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:11:36 +0100 Message-ID: <41F044F4.9070706@wanadoo.es> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:55:32 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorn Argelo References: <41EFA65E.80307@wanadoo.es> <20050120125840.M1382@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050120125840.M1382@wcborstel.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.6 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.6 (/) cc: freebsd-questions-en Subject: Re: I do not understand kernel modules X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:11:39 -0000 Jorn Argelo wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote > >>Hello friends. >> >>I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not >>been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have >>compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include >>the driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel >>config file >> >>device sound >>device "snd_es137x" >> >>and compiled the kernel perfectly. (long time.... ;-) ) >> >>But there is something that I do not understand well. When I look at >>the contents of /boot/kernel/ directory, I found that there are >>kernel sound modules *.ko for every sound card the kernel supports. >>Should not there be my sound card module alone? Does It mean that >>you have to compile all the stuff, even if you are going to use only >>one kind of sound card? Am I missing something? > > > Your sound card has been build into the kernel itself (which is /boot/kernel/ > kernel AFAIK). The *.ko are kernel modules, which you can load using the > kldload command. So in case you get a new sound card, find out what driver it > supports and you can use kldload .ko to get support for your sound > card without recompiling your kernel. Yes, I understand now. The problem is that my old pentium machine takes very long time to compile all the modules even if I am not going to use them. I would like to compile only the modules I use, to reduce compiling time. Is that possible? Thanks > > Cheers, > > Jorn > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >