While I am not exactly new to FreeBSD or other *nix variants, I choose to use
FreeBSD because of its blazing performance, especially on older, slower
machines. Yet, I also wish to strip that kernel to squeeze out every bit of
usable power I can. My delving into kernel customizing with FreeBSD
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:52:45PM -0700, Andrew Carton wrote:
While I am not exactly new to FreeBSD or other *nix variants, I choose
to use FreeBSD because of its blazing performance, especially on older,
slower machines. Yet, I also wish to strip that kernel to squeeze out
every bit of
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:52:45PM -0700, Andrew Carton wrote:
While I am not exactly new to FreeBSD or other *nix variants, I choose to
use FreeBSD because of its blazing performance, especially on older,
slower machines. Yet, I also wish to strip that kernel to squeeze out
every bit of
A few questions on the FreeBSD kernel:
1. If I specify a driver in the config file with a device command, does
that always mean that it's compiled in staticly and not as a module?
2. How does make decide what to compile as a module? Is it everything
not compiled into the kernel that it can
Loren M. Lang wrote:
A few questions on the FreeBSD kernel:
1. If I specify a driver in the config file with a device command, does
that always mean that it's compiled in staticly and not as a module?
It will then be compiled in statically, but this doesn't affect the
module (see below).
2.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:59:44AM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote:
Loren M. Lang wrote:
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3. The handbook seems to suggest to use the config, make, make install
procedure for installing the kernel if you have no other reason for not
using it, what is the reason for this? (The paragraph
Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:59:44AM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote:
Loren M. Lang wrote:
[...]
3. The handbook seems to suggest to use the config, make, make install
procedure for installing the kernel if you have no other reason for not
using it, what is the reason for this? (The
On Friday 12 March 2004 01:36, Uwe Doering wrote:
Well, as far as the result is concerned, both methods are identical.
However, if you use the step-by-step procedure the object files remain
intact after a kernel build, or at least until you delete them
deliberately. So if you then have to
