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This 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.
by cardiffspaceman 6y ago
This 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.