Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Mar 23, 2026, at 7:34 PM, Ben Kallus <benjamin.p.kallus.gr%dartmouth.edu@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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’s a lot in the default GENERIC kernels that probably isn’t 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