I've made a patch to the module subsystem to print the default module load path during initialisation. The reason for doing this is that certain arch/machine combos don't work with the standard modules for their archs and require custom built modules. This is the case for several evbppc variants and xen. The evbppc variants are already working. I'm working on getting xen modules working. I have the modules building and the kernel finds the correct modules, but has problems loading them. Anyways, here's a sample of the dmesg showing the new message. Let the flamewar about the message and when it should be displayed begin...
NetBSD 6.99.25 (XEN3_DOMU) #3: Tue Oct 29 19:07:29 PDT 2013 jnemeth@P4-3679GHz:/usr/local/NetBSD-current/amd64-xenmod-objdir/sys/arch/amd64/compile/XEN3_DOMU total memory = 512 MB avail memory = 486 MB The default path for module loading is: /stand/amd64-xen/6.99.25/modules mainbus0 (root) hypervisor0 at mainbus0: Xen version 4.2.3 ...