On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:50:37 -0700

Scott Learmonth  wrote:
> > As someone else who writes code for this fine os would say: removing

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> > drivers is pure masturbation.

>

> Hah, perfect.

>

> As a first foray into BSD I stumbled upon FreeBSD. To make it do what

> I wanted, step one was to compile a custom kernel. BOOYAH, I got a

> geek-on.

>

> A few months later I had chosen OpenBSD, and have never looked back.

> Sure, tinkering is what we do in may ways (n00b or dev, computer guts

> are what we like), and what better tinker-tool than 5 minutes picking

> drivers and a 3 hour compile? But you know what? GENERIC "just works".

> And the REALLY beautiful thing, is that config "just works" too for

> kernel configuration. You can even write your changes to the kernel

> permanently, saving all that compile time. I'm not versed enough to

> know if a config modified kernel provides the same, um, savings as a

> custom kernel if you used it to remove drivers however.

>

> Cheers

> 

I had an incident with a 4.1+ snapshot where in order to get some

customer config to work I needed to build a "GENERIC" OBSD system

from scratch with some patch code.  This was only somewhat more

complicated than building a custom FreeBSD kernel.  The "monolithic"

OBSD build methodology is only good most of the time, and when it

isn't, it's a bit of a bear.
Dhu