2026-10-17 10:33 UTC
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org I know very little about this area.
Does having all drivers in the kernel cause bloat, and limit device support? Is this likely to be changed?
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@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-10-17 17:52
@happyborg@fosstodon.org depends what you consider bloat. $ du -h /netbsd 28M /netbsd that's amd64. our biggest kernel. there's certainly advantages to not loading networking drivers as modules (easier to fetch files over a network to recover a broken system) but there are others who prefer the modular approach. or prefer not to use GENERIC, maybe because they have less than 64mb RAM. i don't see how it would limit device support.