Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:25:35 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, howard0su@gmail.com Subject: Re: Modularize kernel Message-ID: <45010CDF.1050601@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060908.001045.1683322424.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <f126fae00609062247n62aaf3d7tac8f3980eeb148fb@mail.gmail.com> <20060907.153239.1219861549.imp@bsdimp.com> <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com> <20060908.001045.1683322424.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com> > "Howard Su" <howard0su@gmail.com> writes: >: On 9/8/06, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >: > I routinely boot a minimal kernel and kldload everything. this gives >: > me a kernel about 1/3 the size of a full GENERIC build, but at the >: > price of needing to keep my modules up to date. >: >: For -STABLE tree, i think it is easy since ABI is fixed. However what >: I proposed is pushing this effort to let most user to use module >: instead of rebuilding the kernel. > >I guess what I'm saying is that with a minimal kernel + all the >modules we have, you have that today. > > I'm guessing he would like to have basically no kernel, so that you start by linking in the vm and your scheduler-of-choice, etc >Warner >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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