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Subject: Re: Modularize kernel
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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
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