Re: Making amd64 GENERIC a tad more "modular"

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> amd64 GENERIC differs largely from i386 GENERIC by making a less
> intensive use of of module(7) for options. In fact, most modules are
> still compiled as "builtin" rather than being standalone kmods.
> 
> See modstat(8) outputs for i386 and amd64, attached.
> 
> Would the attached patch (GENERIC.diff) be acceptable?

No.

EXEC_ELF64 is the native binary format so excluding that from
the kernel would be foolish.  I'd say EXEC_ELF32 should be present
as well (you might be booting a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit userland).

TMPFS needs to be there by default.