Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-26 Thread harvey dent
Ok I understand. Thank you very much for your answer. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Da Rock < freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:09 +0200, xyz wrote: > > Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd > > kernel (33,9mo) for

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-26 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 07:09 +0200, xyz wrote: > Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd > kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration. > Linux is based more on a minimalist kernel with user mode modules - add the modules and you'll find its larger, or take

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-23 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 4/23/10, xyz wrote: > Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd > kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration. My kernel is 2.8 MB and ~30 MB are modules (all of them). > Is it difficult to update the patch? Is it difficult to stop top posting. _

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-22 Thread xyz
Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration. Is it difficult to update the patch? On 04/22/10 23:54, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 4/22/10, xyz wrote: Hi Thank you for your answer But "I can't believe" that lighten

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-22 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 4/22/10, xyz wrote: > Hi > Thank you for your answer > But "I can't believe" that lighten the kernel of useless drivers, saves > only few bytes, by removing whole useless modules (sound, ata/sata, agp...). > Furthermore, I think about free space that could be save too, in the > hard drive this

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-22 Thread xyz
Hi Thank you for your answer But "I can't believe" that lighten the kernel of useless drivers, saves only few bytes, by removing whole useless modules (sound, ata/sata, agp...). Furthermore, I think about free space that could be save too, in the hard drive this time. Why for the same configurat

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-21 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 4/21/10, xyz wrote: > Thank you for your answer. > But how I can only choose the intel agp driver, without all others by > puting "agp" in the kernel configuration file? Currently you can not pick only intel agp code, agp module have support for other vendors too. I made patch but it was never

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
xyz wrote: > Thank you for your answer. > But how I can only choose the intel agp driver, without all others by > puting "agp" in the kernel configuration file? > Please don't top post - it is bad form. I think you may be confusing "agp" driver and video driver. The agp support in the kernel i

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-21 Thread xyz
an do that if you do not need those kernel modules. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD *xyz * Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 21.04.2010 15:54 To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject ligh

Re: lighten kernel

2010-04-21 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
21.04.2010 15:54 To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject lighten kernel Hi everybody I want to build a custom kernel, because my pc doesn't have much memory. So I would like reduce the size of the kernel load in the memory, to save her. My question is, is it possible to save more memor

lighten kernel

2010-04-21 Thread xyz
Hi everybody I want to build a custom kernel, because my pc doesn't have much memory. So I would like reduce the size of the kernel load in the memory, to save her. My question is, is it possible to save more memory, by removing the whole agp drivers, and keeping only the driver needed? And s