Re: Configuration of current kernel

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu (itetcu_at_people.tecnik93.com)
Date: 03/12/05

  • Next message: Ion-Mihai Tetcu: "Re: Symlink Question" 
    Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:54 +0200
To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>

    On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:52:15 +0800 (WST)
    David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

    > Helge,
    >
    > Firstly, this really isn't the right list for these questions. You should
    > be sending them to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org instead.

    Indeed.

    > However, I'll do my best to help you out.
    >
    > Features like ext2fs (and, in fact, any file system that you don't want to
    > boot off), snd_emu101k, and just about anything that goes in your kernel
    > config (there are some notable exceptions, and you shouldn't leave out
    > anything that you need to get your machine booting) can be left out of
    > your kernel config file and instead loaded as modules.
    >
    > When you compile a kernel, it's a bit different to Linux, in that EVERY
    > kernel module gets compiled and can (usually) be kldloaded later. This
    > means that the compile takes a bit longer but you often don't have to
    > recompile to add things like new sound cards or network cards.

    But you can sett certain vars in /etc/make/conf to disable this
    behaviour. See for details:
    /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf 

    -- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
_______________________________________________
freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
  • Next message: Ion-Mihai Tetcu: "Re: Symlink Question"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Distributions
      ... | general there are a lot of packages for people to use. ... kernel, have to run on a multitude of different systems, they tend to be ... and slower than if you compile those packages, ... can have that stability with virtually any distro. ...
      (Debian-User)
    • Re: Distributions
      ... Ubuntu is based on Debian, ... | general there are a lot of packages for people to use. ... kernel, have to run on a multitude of different systems, they tend to be larger ... and slower than if you compile those packages, ...
      (Debian-User)
    • Problems with custom kernel fbsd 6.2
      ... My kernel for freebsd 6.2 is not compiling but only with my custom config. ... I was able to compile it with the GENERIC kernel included, but my modified one will not compile. ... # Power management support ...
      (freebsd-questions)
    • Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
      ... >optimisations independently of each other', is fairly simple, (in ... >concept), and elegant, (as it lets you compile the most finely tuned ... >Up to now, selecting a CPU to compile for basically means, "Use ... it's silly to include them all in a kernel for a 386. ...
      (Linux-Kernel)
    • Re: C++ pushback
      ... There are all sorts of macros that use member initialization of that form. ... This does not break the code at run time, this breaks the code at compile time, and should be less painful. ... The kernel relies really _really_ heavily on such structure initializers, and breaking them would effectively break the world as far as the kernel is concerned. ... If they were not, one could simply make a base class having members outlined, and which class does not enforce type safety and is for inheritance only. ...
      (Linux-Kernel)