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

[Bryan Venteicher]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> 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.
>

The holy grail would be for the loader to automatically detect and load
what is needed/supported, but this has been talked and beaten to death in
the past.