On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:50:37 -0700 Scott Learmonth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As someone else who writes code for this fine os would say: removing > > drivers is pure masturbation. > > Hah, perfect. > > As a first foray into BSD I stumbled upon FreeBSD. To make it do what > I wanted, step one was to compile a custom kernel. BOOYAH, I got a > geek-on. > > A few months later I had chosen OpenBSD, and have never looked back. > Sure, tinkering is what we do in may ways (n00b or dev, computer guts > are what we like), and what better tinker-tool than 5 minutes picking > drivers and a 3 hour compile? But you know what? GENERIC "just works". > And the REALLY beautiful thing, is that config "just works" too for > kernel configuration. You can even write your changes to the kernel > permanently, saving all that compile time. I'm not versed enough to > know if a config modified kernel provides the same, um, savings as a > custom kernel if you used it to remove drivers however. > > Cheers > I had an incident with a 4.1+ snapshot where in order to get some customer config to work I needed to build a "GENERIC" OBSD system from scratch with some patch code. This was only somewhat more complicated than building a custom FreeBSD kernel. The "monolithic" OBSD build methodology is only good most of the time, and when it isn't, it's a bit of a bear. Dhu
