Modularize kernel

Howard Su howard0su at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 19:49:41 PDT 2006


On 9/8/06, M. Warner Losh <imp at 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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