From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYDZo-0006tY-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:14:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA52D8MX016039; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:13:08 GMT Received: from mra04.ch.as12513.net (mra04.ch.as12513.net [82.153.252.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA52D7DS004015 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:13:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra04.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E8BC08D7 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:13:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra04.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra04.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14861-02-48 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:13:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from iahastie.local.net (213-152-32-28.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.32.28]) by mra04.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC80C087A for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:13:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail by iahastie.local.net with spam-scanned (Exim 4.54) id 1EYDYG-0007Gj-SJ for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:13:06 +0000 Received: from iahastie.local.net ([192.168.20.1] ident=ianh) by iahastie.local.net with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EYDYG-0007Ge-Oh for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:13:04 +0000 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 02:12:59 +0000 From: Ian Hastie To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: modules Message-ID: <20051105021259.75ccbb93@iahastie.local.net> In-Reply-To: References: <436B56B2.10106@manchester.ac.uk> <436BBEE8.1070303@getdesigned.at> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.15 (GTK+ 2.8.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Archives-Salt: 1df38fa6-2629-430a-a7ee-11c58b4a9603 X-Archives-Hash: be5da8c34f0d0cadbc93c81405c1207b On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:35:19 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > Sebastian Redl posted <436BBEE8.1070303@getdesigned.at>, excerpted > below, on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:04:56 +0100: > > > Duncan wrote: > > > >>You don't need to load /any/ modules at boot, if you compile > >>everything you'd normally load at boot and never unload, into the > >>kernel itself, instead of as modules. > >> > >> > > The single exception here are binary-only modules, usually > > proprietary drivers. The ATI graphics driver fglrx comes to mind. > > True, except that you shouldn't need to load it /at/ /boot/ either, > only when you run X. The rest of the time the normal kernel console > video driver should be fine. Which is true unless you run a display manager and log in through that. The only hard and fast rule of Linux is that there are no hard and fast rules. -- Ian. EOM -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list