Configuration of current kernel

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:52:15 +0800 (WST)
David Adam <zanchey at 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 at 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


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