svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:51:32PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:44:14AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I think our best bet for 9 is to strip GENERIC to the bone and have a
> > 'generic.conf' if you will that loads everything we compile in today.
> 
> I think trasz@ tried that and there is a problem. Loading modules on
> boot is very slow. If you try to load everything that GENERIC has as
> modules the boot will take forever.

Perhaps then we need to come up with something more intelligent, i.e. do not
load everything trying to get maximum coverage of users' hardware, but
load only required bits based on what we see on PCI bus (roughly speaking).

> On all my servers and my laptop I use such minimalistic kernels and load
> everything from modules.

Yes, this is very convenient and IMHO the way to go.  :-)

./danfe