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What percentage of loaded and running binary is it?
by cardiffspaceman 6y ago
What percentage of loaded and running binary is it?
- edoceo 6y ago0% on mine (cause I'm on Intel and Nvidia HW) and have a custom kernel config.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoWhile the down votes are understandable, this is actually a somewhat legitimate take; the kernel's pretty good about not loading stuff that it's not actually going to use on your actual hardware, so the impact of this is limited to people who are actually using that hardware, which by extension means they kinda do need the driver in some form.
- cardiffspaceman 6y agoThis is what I was interested in. As I understand it, there are extra drivers in most installs and this is reconciled as the kernel boots.
- edoceo 6y agoCorrect. A bare kernel to get to an initrd. That loads the rest of the modules is the common distro pattern. I build a kernel w/o initrd, only my necessary hardware and then only modules I need. It's pretty easy, boots fast, stable, etc. But, I'm already a type-A for my work-box (Gentoo)
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI mean, you can just run lsmod to see what modules are loaded; I don't think that lists anything that's statically compiled in, but most distros don't really do that AFAIK.