Re: Modularize kernel

From: Julian Elischer <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:25:35 -0700

M. Warner Losh wrote:

In message: <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Howard Su" <howard0su@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
: 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.

I guess what I'm saying is that with a minimal kernel + all the
modules we have, you have that today.

I'm guessing he would like to have basically no kernel, so that you start by linking in
the vm and your scheduler-of-choice, etc

Warner
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