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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr>
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cc: Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Kernel size 5.2.1
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On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:34, Florian Hengstberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have compiled my own kernel now, editing the GENERIC configfile
> that comes with the distrubtion and commenting out a huge number of
> options.
> The kernel size is still much larger than a linux kernel
> (3.7 MB - 1.2 MB).
> Why is this?

Linux(vmlinuz, bzimage ) is compressed. I think it's much biger than
FreeBSD's kernel. You should compare vmlinux with /kernel

>
> Is there anything similar to lspci in FreeBSD?
> What about lsmod, is there a tool which lists the loaded
> kernel modules?
> How can I find out which driver modules are used for my
> network card?

You can use apropos(1) since almost every device driver has
a manual page. Very nice thing when you don't know the name
of a kld.

Cheers, Nikv

>
> Thanks a lot,
> Florian
>