Barebone kernel options request
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Mar 11 13:43:17 UTC 2019
Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> writes:
> Polytropon writes:
>
>> You will then make a copy of the GENERIC kernel configuration file
>> and adjust it to your needs, i. e., remove all the entries you do
>> not need.
>
> Proceed with caution here.
> I do not know if it is currently true, but it has in the past
> been the case that (e.g.) option Q depends on device F which depends
> on device B; while the relationship between Q and F is documented in
> the config file, the one between F and B is not.
> The easy targets are disk(/RAID) drivers and network cards.
> After that? Stay alert; trust no-one; keep your un-delete key handy.
Furthermore, just because there isn't a dependency today doesn't mean
there won't be one next year. This doesn't happen often, and it can
still happen if you go the nodevice route, but it's still a bit safer to
include all of GENERIC and remove things from there.
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