>Hello, > >having spent most of the evening to understand why >my kernel build suddenly aborted compilation with >a pointer to a missing call "rt_mpath_next", I found >that the "option SMALL_KERNEL" clashes with >"pseudo-device pf 1", and that this was the sole >cause for my failure. My original reason for this >experiment was to produce a small kernel for a >router system. > >Now I am curious, are there any available documentation >as to what features the compilation option SMALL_KERNEL >definitely prevents? I did not succeed so far in >locating such a text. Of course, the man-page mentions >that installer systems are the targets for SMALL_KERNEL, >but for my edification I would like more particular >information. As regards to "pf" I did an analysis of >the source code in sys/net to find the complete explanation >in this particular case, and the culprit is "radix_mpath.h". >But preventing general surprises? > >I am greatful for all hints you can offer
use flashboot if you want to play with crunched systems... http://www.mindrot.org/projects/flashboot/
