From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 29 12:45: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4FC37B424; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA94535; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:44:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA10934; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:44:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008291944.NAA10934@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: hints static wiring Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Brooks Davis , Greg Lehey , Maxim Sobolev , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:24:06 CDT." <14764.3542.322382.773438@guru.mired.org> References: <14764.3542.322382.773438@guru.mired.org> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <39AA5DC6.8D73081B@FreeBSD.org> <14762.24829.363032.115605@guru.mired.org> <39AA6699.41E12730@FreeBSD.org> <14762.26659.335.344828@guru.mired.org> <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000828182921.A31041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20000829103024.A5567@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:44:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <14764.3542.322382.773438@guru.mired.org> Mike Meyer writes: : I suspect I'm going to be one of those people, but let's ask the next : question. How do the two approaches compare from a performance : standpoint? Completely identical. One loads the table from a file, the other reads it from the kernel. : Basically, which will provide the smallest running kernel, and if it's : the same, which will boot fastest? They should be the same size. I'd be surprised if you could measure a difference. You'll get more savings by not compiling in just one driver. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message