svn commit: r225201 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Slawa Olhovchenkov! 

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:40:50 +0400; Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> Not parallel ports -- plip interface

Is someone somewhere boots over a known-to-be-long-broken slow interface?
I doubt.
 
>> The possible solution to this may be to have a MINIMAL kernel, also updated
>> by freebsd-update(8), but that will double requirements for space in /boot...

> Why?
> Only minimal kernel on installation media and large /boot/loader.conf
> (on installation media) with all current drivers from GENERIC don't
> double requirements for space, on the contrary, space requirements
> reduced by reducing new GENERIC.

No. Space requirements are not reduced signinficantly because kernel always
has all it's modules in same subdir. And if freebsd-update(8) updates, you
have to have two kernels in /boot, both MINIMAL and GENERIC, haven't you?

> Next step: after install sysincstall/bsdinstall/pc-install may reduce
> /boot/loader.conf and move some drivers to kld_list.

Sounds good, but will all-in-loader.conf sllooww down installation media
boot considerably?

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