On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Michael van Elst wrote:
e...@math.uni-bonn.de (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:
Do you, or does anyone you know, rely on any of these modules?
While I do use both linux and linux32 (to execute the proprietary TSM client),
I could just modload them if I wouldn't build my own kernel anyway.
The difference is to have a fix configuration to load it while booting
or to load and unload it on demand.
At least for x86 architectures, you can easily edit /boot.cfg to include
the required load commands. This causes the boot loader to "push" the
modules before init gets started.
I do this regularly with ffs & wapbl (these modules are NOT included in
my custom kernel configs)!
# caqt /boot.cfg
load=wapbl
load=ffs
menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd
menu=Boot single user:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -s
menu=Disable ACPI:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -2
menu=Disable ACPI and SMP:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -12
menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
menu=Run memory test:boot memtestplus
default=1
timeout=5
clear=1
#
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