Re: snapshot to test netbsd-7 with gcc 4.8

David Ross wrote:

> This is great, thank you so much for the ongoing support!  I am unable to test immediately but I'll give it a try next week.

No problem, feedback from actual users is really pleasure :-)

> I'm slightly curious about what effect enabling MODULAR might have.

Per module(7) man page:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?module++NetBSD-current
>>     Kernel modules allow the system administrator to dynamically add and
>>     remove functionality from a running system.

So we can shrink kernel binaries (especially for install on atari)
and can add kernel features (file system etc) without rebuilding
custom monolithic kernels.
(though there are many NetBSD developers who don't like it)

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Izumi Tsutsui