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Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel
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On 02/10/2012 12:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I've done this a few times.
> 
> The /boot/loader takes a _long_ time to suck in the 25 odd modules my
> eeepc requires to load a completely modular kernel.

For those modules not directly related to booting you're better off
putting them in kld_list in rc.conf. It's available already in 9, and in
[78]-stable.


hth,

Doug

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