Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:21:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf Message-ID: <6BB2BD4D-824A-4EDA-8B9D-A774AC7DCDA2@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20110612112150.GB62801@FreeBSD.org> References: <201106110908.p5B98kkE066709@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106111403060.44950@fledge.watson.org> <BANLkTik%2B-gVXGQkFmTH%2Bm2hswfnrRcawrg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106111445460.44950@fledge.watson.org> <75DAEF7E-F43E-427E-8AFA-586E0B56D450@bsdimp.com> <20110611184549.GB3284@garage.freebsd.pl> <20110612112150.GB62801@FreeBSD.org>
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On Jun 12, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:51:32PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:44:14AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >>> I think our best bet for 9 is to strip GENERIC to the bone and have = a >>> 'generic.conf' if you will that loads everything we compile in = today. >>=20 >> I think trasz@ tried that and there is a problem. Loading modules on >> boot is very slow. If you try to load everything that GENERIC has as >> modules the boot will take forever. >=20 > Perhaps then we need to come up with something more intelligent, i.e. = do not > load everything trying to get maximum coverage of users' hardware, but > load only required bits based on what we see on PCI bus (roughly = speaking). Yea. Good luck with that. I had that idea like 4 or 5 years ago. = However, there's a lot of grunt work to do on all the drivers in the = system to get them into good enough shape to export their PCI ID lists = in a uniform way so we could automatically do the right thing. This isn't a 9.x item, but it could easily be a 10.x item. Warner=
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