Auto kernel module loading

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Alastair G. Hogge wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Just the other day I was configuring/striping my kernel to the barest I could 
> manage. I was doing this to hopefully reduce kernel build time.
> 
> Now after adding 60 lines to loader.conf to load the modules I need, I began 
> thinking is there a way for FreeBSD to load the modules automaticly at boot 
> time itself?
> 
> If not, would be hard to implement such a feature? How would someone go about 
> doing such a thing? As I would be happy to give it a go....but don't know 
> where to start.
> 
> Does the documentation project have some info to help? I'm cvsup-ing them 
> right now as I once recall seeing an article titled something like 
> "Programmers guide to FreeBSD"

Plan once was for loader to identify the PNP IDs and load the 
appropriate modules. What the appropriate modules were would be infered 
from a configuration file.

I think Mike decided that wasn't such a good idea after all, but I 
wasn't much in touch with FreeBSD at the time, so I remember it only 
vaguely.

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