"Paul A. Howes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may be a fairly elementary question, but I have not seen this > addressed in the Handbook at all -- Which is the preferred method for > using drivers: KLDs or compiling into the kernel? Are there some that > work better one way than the other?
Drivers compiled into the kernel can be compiled with specific options, and they make debugging easier in case of a panic (provided you get a dump). Some drivers fail to initialize properly if they are not loaded at boot time (i.e. compiled into the kernel *or* enabled in loader.conf) and of course some drivers (such as those you need to access your root partition) *must* be present at boot time. Leaving drivers out of your kernel config saves some compilation time, since unless you tweak MODULES_OVERRIDE to only build modules you know that you will need, everything in your kernel which is also a module gets built twice. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
