I'd like to axe some drivers

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Tue Nov 25 09:09:45 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:51:57AM +0900, moto kawasaki wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you very much developers for giving me such a nice OS
> up-to-date.
> 
> It sounds reasonable for me to remove old devices from GENERIC.
> But may I ask a question?
> 
> If removed, how can I use those device drivers ?
> Do I need to re-compile kernel ?
> Or, can I use one of them with kldload ?
> Is it automatically loaded during the boot process, with charm in
> /boot/loader.conf ?
> 
> I personally runs fxp and dc on my home pc, so I am very curious.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 

You can usually just load the kernel module with kldload(8).
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