Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:49:40 +0800 From: "Howard Su" <howard0su@gmail.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modularize kernel Message-ID: <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060907.153239.1219861549.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <f126fae00609060912j4a8ec0c1sa12f59aa453e4cd9@mail.gmail.com> <f126fae00609062247n62aaf3d7tac8f3980eeb148fb@mail.gmail.com> <20060907.153239.1219861549.imp@bsdimp.com>
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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. -- -Howard
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