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 1EY7qj-0002V5-Ry for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:07:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4K4qrY015804; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:04:52 GMT Received: from windmuehlgasse.getdesigned.at (chello062178000135.1.11.univie.teleweb.at [62.178.0.135]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4K4p3M002626 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:04:52 GMT Received: (qmail 11569 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2005 21:11:51 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.5?) (192.168.1.5) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 4 Nov 2005 21:11:51 +0100 Message-ID: <436BBEE8.1070303@getdesigned.at> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:04:56 +0100 From: Sebastian Redl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051022) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: modules References: <436B56B2.10106@manchester.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 73377578-d6f3-4f71-97e9-d52122b83ada X-Archives-Hash: 6dc2841556ca9e85397b4a4268891204 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. Sebastian Redl -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list