Re: Kernel question

2005-07-08 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Friday 01 July 2005 11:02 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/1/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! I would like to investigate transfering all the

Re: Kernel question

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/30/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked out the man pages you listed, thanks for the help! I didn't understand everything in all of them, but they did help me firgure out some more questions to ask. Is it possible to identify all hardware component in my system in the

Re: Kernel question

2005-07-01 Thread Bryan Maynard
I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! I would like to investigate transfering all the device info from boot -v to LATITUDE_C600.hints. I don't really know what most of the info from boot -v means, I'd

Re: Kernel question

2005-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! I would like to investigate transfering all the device info from boot -v to LATITUDE_C600.hints. I don't

Re: Kernel question

2005-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/29/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey helpful friends! :-D I would like to conduct an experiment: down the road (a couple years maybe) I'd like to start building and selling PCs. I'd like these PCs to run FreeBSD - because it's the best ;-). These machines will be a slightly

Re: Kernel question

2005-06-30 Thread Bryan Maynard
I checked out the man pages you listed, thanks for the help! I didn't understand everything in all of them, but they did help me firgure out some more questions to ask. Is it possible to identify all hardware component in my system in the device.hints file and if so, what would that accomplish?

Re: Kernel Question

2005-01-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Sean Murphy wrote: The FreeBSD kernel is monolithic correct? Hmm, how 'bout modern monolithic module-loading kernel? Does it support or does it use kernel loadable modules and if so why? The general reason would be to support extension of the kernel's capabilities at runtime, while keeping the

Re: Kernel Question

2005-01-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-31 09:17, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FreeBSD kernel is monolithic correct? Yes. At least, sort of. Does it support or does it use kernel loadable modules and if so why? Yes. Because by not having everything loaded at the same time, a lot of memory can be saved.

Re: Kernel question about sk(4)

2004-04-17 Thread Tim McMillen
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 23:02, Mark wrote: I have a question about the sk(4) driver. I want to use the 3Com 3C940, onboard an ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard, using FreeBSD 4.9R. I asked this before; but this is not really a 3com question, but more a kernel question, I think. At the SYNOPSIS of