HEADS UP: GENERIC will gain options MODULAR

Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In the near future the sparc64 GENERIC kernel will gain options MODULAR.
This allows it to load kernel modules, but also will by default enable
auto-loading of modules, e.g. for file systems when used for the first
time. Auto-loading is only possible from predefined paths in /stand, where
supposedly root has installed the official modules.

If you do not want this change (and are using GENERIC), you can disable
the auto loading by adding

	kern.module.autoload=0

to your /etc/sysctl.conf file.

Martin

P.S.: it is not intended to strip features from GENERIC, the MODULAR kernel
is the (slightly) stripped one. There will also be a a TEST kernel (based
on MODULAR, but INSECURE, used for atf test runs) and a MONOLITHIC config,
which is basically GENERIC without options MODULAR.
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