Modularize kernel

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> (from Fri, 08 Sep 2006  
00:10:45 -0600 (MDT)):

> In message: <f126fae00609071949u79960am7d781b3fca8058b8 at mail.gmail.com>
>             "Howard Su" <howard0su at gmail.com> writes:
> : On 9/8/06, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> 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.

We should provide a minimal kernel config along GENERIC and NOTES/LINT  
then. This would show what people need at least in their kernel.

Additionally freebsd-update could maybe extended to provide updates  
for a minimal kernel too and people would have less reasons to build  
their own kernel.

Bye,
Alexander.

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