On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net> (from Wed, > 22 Feb 2012 22:31:36 +0000): > > > On 21. Feb 2012, at 13:35 , Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > >> You can download from > >> http://www.Leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/ > >> The files are > >> - i386_SMALL > >> - i386_SMALL_loader.conf > >> - amd64_SMALL > >> - amd64_SMALL_loader.conf > > > > I only looked at the laoder.conf for amd64 and the only comment I > > have is that I do not have the time to wait minutes for all > > individual modules to be loaded. This is going to be really bad for > > boot time. > > Well, nobody forces you to use it. And as can be seen on the lists, > there are patches floating around to improve the loading speed of the > loader.
You can also put most of the modules in rc.conf: kld_list="umass u3g" ... That speeds up loading the modules a lot. > > This is also just an example to be on par as much as possible with > GENERIC. People which want to use this kernel most probably want to > cut the loader.conf down and maybe even want to use the rc.conf > setting to load modules which are not needed to boot. One additional advantage is that you have a bigger chance of a working suspend / resume. Just unload all problematic modules before suspending and re-load them after resuming.
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