Re: Modularize kernel

On 9/8/06, M. Warner Losh <imp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I routinely boot a minimal kernel and kldload everything. this gives
me a kernel about 1/3 the size of a full GENERIC build, but at the
price of needing to keep my modules up to date.

For -STABLE tree, i think it is easy since ABI is fixed. However what
I proposed is pushing this effort to let most user to use module
instead of rebuilding the kernel.


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-Howard
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