svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:46:11PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Author: bryanv
> > Date: Fri Sep  6 20:24:21 2013
> > New Revision: 255323
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255323
> >
> > Log:
> >   Add vmx device to the i386 and amd64 NOTES files
> >
> >
> FWIW - I'm on the fence about adding vmx to GENERIC for 10.0. IIRC,
> VMware's vmxnet3 driver returns BUS_PROBE_VENDOR so the two drivers should
> coexist. This is assuming VMware updates the driver for 10 ... which I'm
> guessing isn't likely and was a large reason I added this driver in the
> first place.

Why we don't switch (in 10.0) to minimal GENERIC and all driver loaded
as modules (/boot/loader.conf)? This is reduce memory (by easy unloading unneed
drivers/modules), space (by reducing GENERIC+symbols size about 100M),
space on install media too (100M + compressed 100M), build time (not
need to build some modules twice) and add ability to easy
update/bugfix modules w/o reboot.

After last updates to bootloader loading many modules enought fast.

I already switched (for me) to this setup and it's fine for me.