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From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: PORTS_MODULES
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> Howdy,
> 
> This is an FYI to let people know about a really nice feature for those
> that have ports installed which include kernel modules. You can place a
> list in /etc/src.conf like this:
> 
> PORTS_MODULES=  emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod sysutils/fusefs-kmod
> x11/nvidia-driver
> 
> which will cause those modules to be built and installed with all the
> proper matching stuff at the same time as buildkernel and installkernel.
> 
> This feature has existed for a while, but has had "issues." Thanks to a
> team effort it's a lot more robust now, and ready for prime time (in
> HEAD, and the -STABLE branches for now, soon to be in 9.1-RELEASE).
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Doug

nice!
does it also work when cross-compiling? ie, using an amd64-freebsd-8.3 kernel
to compile for i386-freebsd-8.2

thanks,
	danny