Everyone:
Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2
kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower
ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for
this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the
kernel, they are all still built as loadable modules. The machines
in question will NEVER use those modules, so it's a waste of time
and disk space.
How hard would it be to create a build target for "make" that would
avoid building the loadable modules and just leave them out of the
directory where the new kernel is placed after installation? I am
not intimately familiar with the cascade of makefiles that does the
build.... I could probably figure out what to tweak, but if someone
who is expert in this can help it would be appreciated. It would
save me countless hours.
--Brett Glass
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