8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting perryh at pluto.rain.com (from Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:13:48 -0800):

> Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 02/18/2012 10:43, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> > Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >> loading modules through loader.conf is
>> >> veeeeeerrrrryyyyyy sssssllllloooooowwwwww ...
>> >
>> > Is it noticeably slower to load (say) a 6MB kernel + 2MB of
>> > modules than to load an 8MB kernel?
>>
>> I don't know, that wasn't the problem I was trying to solve.
>
> Given the context of the thread, this:
>
>> >> loading modules through loader.conf is
>> >> veeeeeerrrrryyyyyy sssssllllloooooowwwwww ...
>
> seemed to be an objection to modularizing the kernel.  Hence my

Looks more like an opinion. In fact, I work on a modularized kernel  
config which I want to commit to -current at some point (for those  
which do not care how long it takes to boot the system).

The goal of my work is to produce something like GENERIC+more, just as  
much as possible loaded as kld's (the "+more" part is the result of a  
poll I did on stable@, it contains only stuff which can not be loaded  
as a kld, and I provide a loader.conf which disables the parts which  
would cause a major change in behavior). Currently I'm doing some  
compile testing, I should be able to provide something for review soon  
(on current@).

Bye,
Alexander.

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