kernel config

How far can we reduce the FreeBSD kernel, to the point of only using busybox, the boot system to start the system, to make it very small? (Sorry for possible spelling mistakes, I'm from Brazil and I have a huge appreciation for FreeBSD)

Hi. I made a custom kernel by copying GENERIC to a new file called MYKERNEL and I built kernel with KERNCONF=MYKERNEL. My problem is when i commented out those two lines below, make buildkernel command fails with errors. If I don't comment out these lines, make doesn't fail. I would want to know...

Hello all, my first post! Been using FreeBSD for a week or two now and I wanted to secure the simple things right away as is my nature. I wrote a Python script that can set and re-set: rc.conf sysctl.conf loader.conf login.conf Along with a set of mitigations that I've gathered over the...

Guys, good evening folks. My setup is: I build world and kernel (Generic) on my host and I use poudriere to build all ports that I use (around 1200). I want to play with the Kernel configuration and build a custom kernel for my T430. For now I don't want to put any port module inside the...

How can I tell is the isp driver have been compiled with the currently installed version od BDS (13.1)?

Hello, I have a ready-to-use U-boot, and now I want to replicate the Linux steps of cooking kernel and rootfs images for aarch64 FreeBSD. My goal is to flash them to a 16-Mbyte SPI Flash chip. 1) Firstly, would a generic aarch64 FreeBSD release be capable of booting from SPI? 2) Kernel image...

In some places of the kernel config (I'm referring to the amd64 GENERIC one for this topic) I see stuff like this: # Parallel port device ppc device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device ppi # Parallel port...

The last part of section 8.4 of the handbook talks about using an include statement to modify only some options: include GENERIC ident MYKERNEL options IPFIREWALL options DUMMYNET options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options IPDIVERT While this might seem like...