Re: Please read if you use x86 -current

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:56:28PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
> > 
> > On 12-Nov-2008, at 9:57 AM, Andrew Doran wrote:
> >>
> >> The x86 GENERIC kernels have become bloated. The plan is to start moving
> >> much functionality out of the main binary and into kernel modules (new
> >> style
> >> modules, not LKMs).
> > 
> 
> One question: How are modules supposed to get loaded when the kernel
> boots via PXE and with root-on-nfs ?

The same way the kernel accesses the root partition: NFS. Beore bootstrap
the same way the kernel is loaded: TFTP.

Andrew