Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > Hello list, > > Just the other day I was configuring/striping my kernel to the barest I could > manage. I was doing this to hopefully reduce kernel build time. > > Now after adding 60 lines to loader.conf to load the modules I need, I began > thinking is there a way for FreeBSD to load the modules automaticly at boot > time itself? > > If not, would be hard to implement such a feature? How would someone go about > doing such a thing? As I would be happy to give it a go....but don't know > where to start. > > Does the documentation project have some info to help? I'm cvsup-ing them > right now as I once recall seeing an article titled something like > "Programmers guide to FreeBSD" Plan once was for loader to identify the PNP IDs and load the appropriate modules. What the appropriate modules were would be infered from a configuration file. I think Mike decided that wasn't such a good idea after all, but I wasn't much in touch with FreeBSD at the time, so I remember it only vaguely. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo_at_tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral_at_tcoip.com.br dcs_at_tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs_at_newsguy.com dcs_at_freebsd.org capo_at_notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. -- Charles-Maurice De TalleyrandReceived on Thu Apr 17 2003 - 05:19:27 UTC
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