Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:55:32 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions-en <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: I do not understand kernel modules Message-ID: <41F044F4.9070706@wanadoo.es> In-Reply-To: <20050120125840.M1382@wcborstel.nl> References: <41EFA65E.80307@wanadoo.es> <20050120125840.M1382@wcborstel.nl>
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Jorn Argelo wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote > >>Hello friends. >> >>I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not >>been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have >>compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include >>the driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel >>config file >> >>device sound >>device "snd_es137x" >> >>and compiled the kernel perfectly. (long time.... ;-) ) >> >>But there is something that I do not understand well. When I look at >>the contents of /boot/kernel/ directory, I found that there are >>kernel sound modules *.ko for every sound card the kernel supports. >>Should not there be my sound card module alone? Does It mean that >>you have to compile all the stuff, even if you are going to use only >>one kind of sound card? Am I missing something? > > > Your sound card has been build into the kernel itself (which is /boot/kernel/ > kernel AFAIK). The *.ko are kernel modules, which you can load using the > kldload command. So in case you get a new sound card, find out what driver it > supports and you can use kldload <yourdriver>.ko to get support for your sound > card without recompiling your kernel. Yes, I understand now. The problem is that my old pentium machine takes very long time to compile all the modules even if I am not going to use them. I would like to compile only the modules I use, to reduce compiling time. Is that possible? Thanks > > Cheers, > > Jorn > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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