From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 15 13:16:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602DF37B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newnet.co.uk (newnet.co.uk [212.87.80.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709E743E4A for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Received: from BONG (unknown@jheckford-131.adsl.newnet.co.uk [213.131.191.131]) by newnet.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g8FKG6NE050318 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:16:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Message-ID: <001001c25d36$a3672be0$83bf83d5@BONG> Reply-To: "Jamie Heckford" From: "Jamie Heckford" To: Subject: Kernel - Modules and Compiled in Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:07:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Newnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've noticed by having to admin a few linux boxes in my time that the majority of the kernel drivers are loaded via modules, comparing this to freebsd it seems to be that most drivers are compiled into the kernel and utilities such as ipfw/linux emu. are loaded as modules. I was wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are of using kernel modules as opposed to compiling them in? If someone could kindly let me know or shout where theres an in-depth explanation on the net I would be grateful :) Cheers, -- Jamie Heckford jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk http://www.jamiesdomain.org.uk/ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve -- ____________________________________________________ Message scanned for viruses and dangerous content by and believed to be clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message