Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:39:18 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Quick build of stripped-down kernel Message-ID: <201111241439.HAA07258@lariat.net>
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Everyone: Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the kernel, they are all still built as loadable modules. The machines in question will NEVER use those modules, so it's a waste of time and disk space. How hard would it be to create a build target for "make" that would avoid building the loadable modules and just leave them out of the directory where the new kernel is placed after installation? I am not intimately familiar with the cascade of makefiles that does the build.... I could probably figure out what to tweak, but if someone who is expert in this can help it would be appreciated. It would save me countless hours. --Brett Glass
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