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 1EY8Sq-0004vb-9K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:47:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4KjaiU030143; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:45:36 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4KjZ5E018853 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:45:35 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EY8On-00062P-M1 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:42:57 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:42:57 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:42:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: modules Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:35:19 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <436B56B2.10106@manchester.ac.uk> <436BBEE8.1070303@getdesigned.at> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 472f141e-f661-48c6-8df2-11448e177466 X-Archives-Hash: a84048c1f2bfae2d19ae0021ea151c88 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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list