Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:34:47 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Mar 23, 2026, at 7:34=E2=80=AFPM, Ben Kallus =
<[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> Returning to the original question about dse(4), I just tested in
> QEMU, and the driver adds 40k of memory overhead, a 0.1% increase to
> the memory usage of the default minimal NetBSD install.
>=20
> Adding dse to GENERIC just seemed like the simplest change to achieve
> the effect I want, but including dse in the default modules set, or
> shipping multiple kernels would also solve my (small) problem.

There=E2=80=99s a lot in the default GENERIC kernels that probably =
isn=E2=80=99t used much these days.

In general, the NetBSD kernel does need to go on a bit of a diet, =
trimming back GENERIC is probably a good starting point.

-- thorpej