Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Feasible: depend upon your definition of "feasible". You would have to
> add all keymaps statically into the kernel. No idea which parts exactly
> we talk about, but:
> ---snip---
> % du -h /usr/share/syscons/
> 40k /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
> 570k /usr/share/syscons/fonts
> 1.1M /usr/share/syscons/keymaps
> 1.8M /usr/share/syscons/
> ---snip---
>
> I wouldn't mind for 40k, but 1.8M looks more like the value to calculate
> with. Anyway, this is out of the scope of the original question.

Correct me if I'm wrong but zfs already fetches plain file 
/boot/zfs/zpool.cache on load. Can't this be:

  1. Postponed to later processing.
  2. After filesystems are mounted the keymap is loaded.

Or even:

  1. Put all viable files on the / partition.
  2. Select and load correct one before kernel is fired.

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