svn commit: r255323 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:47:07AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > I'll be happy if someone does this right now, by populating a
> > /boot/loader.modules or something, and then force the "fixing" of loader
> to
> > cache metadata to make the reads faster.
>
> Some very, very old devices don't exist as modules.
> This SCSI controllers (ISA-only?). I just drop this.
>

I think you're missing the point.  Right now, loading modules from the
loader is supposed to be painfully slow, at least in many situations.
 dougb (IIRC) added the kld_list rc.conf variable so that modules could be
loaded once the machine is up, which proceeds at a much more reasonable
pace.  This seems to be what Adrian is alluding to with '"fixing" of loader
to cache metadata to make the reads faster'.

-Ben Kaduk