[personal nit... it would be nice if the isa bus would be eliminated
entirely, but there appears to be an edge case when compiling a
XEN3_DOM0 kernel that requires it to be there... don't remember why...]
I saw this. Split it. I only use 'pciide* at pci? ...' AND
'ahcisata* at pci? ...'
On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 4:56 PM Brad Spencer <b...@anduin.eldar.org> wrote:
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> Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Is there a better way to config a netbsd kernel.
> >
> > GENERIC is getting so big.
>
> I assume that this is in reference to NetBSD/amd64...
>
> Use the MODULAR kernel?? This list might be incomplete, but it does
> remove a number of drivers from the kernel.
>
> Edit GENERIC and remove / comment out what you don't want... this is,
> perhaps, less desirable as the 'no ...' stuff works well.
>
> Use the GENERIC.local thing and put in 'no ...' lines for the stuff you
> don't want....
>
> Create a new config that includes GENERIC and has 'no ...' lines for the
> stuff you don't want.... I did this for a GENERIC PVHcentric amd64
> kernel... it had a lot of 'no ... ' lines.
>
> Realize that a lot of systems today, both big and small, are pretty big
> compared to XX years ago and the GENERIC kernel really isn't that
> bad....
>
>
> [personal nit... it would be nice if the isa bus would be eliminated
> entirely, but there appears to be an edge case when compiling a
> XEN3_DOM0 kernel that requires it to be there... don't remember why...]
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> Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
