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FreeBSD Kernel Modules Pkg(8) Repositories

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·June 22, 2025
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ggm-at-algebras

Never played with kernel mods via packages but very tempted to start.

I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.

vermaden

I believe you already played with /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MINIMAL kernel?

ggm-at-algebras

Yes. Some time ago. Circumstances took me to TrueNAS Core BSD flavour which is regrettably retrograde, and I am about to rejoin the cleaner experience but the transition is .. scary. Making a smaller kernel is off to one side of my main intent which is to NOT lose my existing ZFS state!

yjftsjthsd-h

Oh good, it does tie to the actual installed minor version. For a moment, I worried we would hit a situation where it would break the other way, with pkg immediately trying to install modules for the next minor version before it was installed.