On 02/17/12 17:14, Doug Barton wrote:
On 02/17/2012 15:11, matt wrote:
We have a modular kernel. It makes best-practices-sense to keep the
kernel true to what's required to boot and initialize the hardware
required to come up multiuser. I am actually against having sound in
there at all.
I think the question is not, "What should be in the kernel?" but rather
"What should be on by default?" *How* those things are provided is a
different question.
One could argue that an intelligent installer combined with a more
modular kernel would be the right answer.
However, as a compromise, if it must be in there, then put it in
loader.conf and not the kernel.
I keep hoping that if I repeat this enough times that people will get
the word. :) Because loading modules through loader.conf is
veeeeeerrrrryyyyyy sssssllllloooooowwwwww I added an rc.d script called
kld that will load the specified modules after disks are mounted. This
is at least an order of magnitude faster. Look for kld_list in
rc.conf(5) if you want the details, but the short version is that you
just do something like, kld_list="umass coretemp ichwd linux nvidia".
This is in all the -stable branches (including 7), is already in 9.0,
and will be in 8.3.
Obviously you have to have everything in kernel and/or loader.conf
that's necessary to get your local disks available, and the system to
the point where it can start running rc. But everything else can go in
kld_list.
hth,
Doug
Oooh! Ahhh! Just what I was looking for. l will extract this from 9
and put it on my system.
Much better than having to edit the loader.conf and/or having to create
a rc.local script.
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