From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 08:52:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68BA106566B; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB048FC15; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5C46A6012; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:52:00 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.0x20.net Received: from mail.0x20.net ([217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id b8Ty3ylRFztF; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:51:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C44266A6011; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:51:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1N8pxka056660; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:51:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q1N8pxJY055275; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:51:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:51:59 +0100 From: Lars Engels To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20120223085159.GU14469@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20120221143537.Horde.deyFDZjmRSRPQ52pxBIpnLA@webmail.leidinger.net> <20120223091808.Horde.iJJvNZjmRSRPRfZAlqnPsrA@webmail.leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="95xjieIIiUQImiTX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120223091808.Horde.iJJvNZjmRSRPRfZAlqnPsrA@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] modular kernel config X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:52:01 -0000 --95xjieIIiUQImiTX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting "Bjoern A. Zeeb" (from Wed, =20 > 22 Feb 2012 22:31:36 +0000): >=20 > > On 21. Feb 2012, at 13:35 , Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > >> You can download from > >> http://www.Leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/ > >> The files are > >> - i386_SMALL > >> - i386_SMALL_loader.conf > >> - amd64_SMALL > >> - amd64_SMALL_loader.conf > > > > I only looked at the laoder.conf for amd64 and the only comment I =20 > > have is that I do not have the time to wait minutes for all =20 > > individual modules to be loaded. This is going to be really bad for = =20 > > boot time. >=20 > Well, nobody forces you to use it. And as can be seen on the lists, =20 > there are patches floating around to improve the loading speed of the =20 > loader. You can also put most of the modules in rc.conf: kld_list=3D"umass u3g" ... That speeds up loading the modules a lot. >=20 > This is also just an example to be on par as much as possible with =20 > GENERIC. People which want to use this kernel most probably want to =20 > cut the loader.conf down and maybe even want to use the rc.conf =20 > setting to load modules which are not needed to boot. One additional advantage is that you have a bigger chance of a working suspend / resume. Just unload all problematic modules before suspending and re-load them after resuming. --95xjieIIiUQImiTX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9F/i8ACgkQKc512sD3afhlRQCgtWN7Du1OYN0UqzTC0dpbqewM C2wAoJ+/4e5PES5mAG0G/SjpMxRlMmpm =x9fI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --95xjieIIiUQImiTX--