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

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, matthew green 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.
>
>
> i strongly agree with this.

Me too.

My "totally modular" kernel config file contains

        ...
        no options      EXEC_ELF64
        no options      EXEC_SCRIPT
        no options      COREDUMP
        no options      AIO
        no options      MQUEUE
        ...

Not hard to type, not hard to maintain.


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