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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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