On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:49:19PM +0000, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote: > Module Name: src > Committed By: jym > Date: Thu Feb 10 16:49:19 UTC 2011 > > Modified Files: > src/sys/arch/i386/conf: INSTALL > > Log Message: > For i386, include MONOLITHIC for INSTALL rather than GENERIC. While here, > remove drm drivers, we don't need them for install. > > i386 GENERIC has FFS and ELF support compiled as modules, so we hit > an interesting "chicken-egg" situation when the kernel attempts to mount > a ffs ramdisk, while the module might be contained inside... the ramdisk.
I'm not 100% sure it is worth having FFS and ELF support as modules in GENERIC. It may be nice that they CAN be modules, but I suspect 99.99% of systems will need them. Anyone who wants them as modules can build a kernel without them. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk