Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64/conf

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 07:10:26PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> This was not done to reduce the size.  The reason behind this change
> was to make the kernel boot as quickly as possible (some devices in
> GENERIC add a noticeable delay to the boot process, which is extremely
> annoying in case you need to do frequent reboot cycles), and to
> provide users a simple template they can use for custom kernels when
> doing kernel development work under this virtual machine.

I can somewhat understand the boot speed argument. Could you instead
please try to find out which drivers are responsible?

Joerg