From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 19 10: 7:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B236337B4E5 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9JH6rB24035; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Archie Cobbs Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel, modules In-Reply-To: <200010152132.e9FLWW109840@curve.dellroad.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote: > It's great now that we build all the KLD's at the same time > that we build the kernel. The proliferation of KLD's is also > good news. > > But essentially now we're building everything twice.. which > brings up a couple of questions.. > > 1. Should we be only building everything once, and then > construct "kernel" by linking together what are essentially > "pre-loaded" KLD's? I believe this is the ultimate goal -- building a basic "kernel" module and loading the driver KLDs as defined by the hints or bus probes. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message