From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 18:36:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BD537B401 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E1243F3F for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) Received: from pen-ts1-2600-111.tpgi.com.au (pen-ts1-2600-111.tpgi.com.au [203.213.3.111]) by mail2.tpgi.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3H1amof010869 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:36:52 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:36:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304171136.57515.agh@tpg.com.au> X-Kaspersky-Antivirus: Passed Subject: Auto kernel module loading X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 17 Apr 2003 01:36:57 -0000 Hello list, Just the other day I was configuring/striping my kernel to the barest I could manage. I was doing this to hopefully reduce kernel build time. Now after adding 60 lines to loader.conf to load the modules I need, I began thinking is there a way for FreeBSD to load the modules automaticly at boot time itself? If not, would be hard to implement such a feature? How would someone go about doing such a thing? As I would be happy to give it a go....but don't know where to start. Does the documentation project have some info to help? I'm cvsup-ing them right now as I once recall seeing an article titled something like "Programmers guide to FreeBSD" -Alastair