On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> Is it possible to specify the kernel that the hardware for which there are
> drivers probing for but I don't have in my PC is absent? Since OBSD has no
> suspend to disk/RAM, the bootup speed is critical when working with a laptop
> in public transport.
You can use config(8) to disable drivers without building a new
kernel, but you really have to know what you're doing. There's a
tool called dmassage in the ports tree (sysutils/dmassage) which
can help determining unused devices by looking at dmesgs's output.
My experience (I tried it once on a Soekris Net4801) is that doing
this kind of tuning won't gain you much speed at but time but is a
real PITA if you want to plug some new device and have to re-enable
it first to use it.
Ciao,
Kili
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