Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/conf

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

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

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