Re: I do not understand kernel modules

From: Ramiro Aceves (ea1abz_at_wanadoo.es)
Date: 01/21/05

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    Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:55:32 +0100
To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl>

    Jorn Argelo wrote:
    > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote
    >
    >>Hello friends.
    >>
    >>I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not
    >>been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have
    >>compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include
    >>the driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel
    >>config file
    >>
    >>device sound
    >>device "snd_es137x"
    >>
    >>and compiled the kernel perfectly. (long time.... ;-) )
    >>
    >>But there is something that I do not understand well. When I look at
    >>the contents of /boot/kernel/ directory, I found that there are
    >>kernel sound modules *.ko for every sound card the kernel supports.
    >>Should not there be my sound card module alone? Does It mean that
    >>you have to compile all the stuff, even if you are going to use only
    >>one kind of sound card? Am I missing something?
    >
    >
    > Your sound card has been build into the kernel itself (which is /boot/kernel/
    > kernel AFAIK). The *.ko are kernel modules, which you can load using the
    > kldload command. So in case you get a new sound card, find out what driver it
    > supports and you can use kldload <yourdriver>.ko to get support for your sound
    > card without recompiling your kernel.

    Yes, I understand now. The problem is that my old pentium machine takes
    very long time to compile all the modules even if I am not going to use
    them. I would like to compile only the modules I use, to reduce
    compiling time. Is that possible?

    Thanks

    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Jorn
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