Summary: | loader(8) description, and see also, with regard to kernel modules | ||
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Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Graham Perrin <grahamperrin> |
Component: | Manual Pages | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
Status: | Open --- | ||
Severity: | Affects Many People | CC: | doc, emaste |
Priority: | --- | ||
Version: | Latest | ||
Hardware: | Any | ||
OS: | Any | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272129 |
Description
Graham Perrin
![]() ![]() In reply to Mina Galić from bug 272129 comment 9 I took a hier(7) perspective: /boot/ … defaults/ … dtb/ … efi/ … firmware/ loadable kernel modules … kernel/ pure kernel … and kernel modules modules/ third-party loadable kernel modules, … … … Whilst D25601 was rc-oriented, it is true (for my use cases) that the majority of kernel modules are in /boot/kernel/ … % sudo rm /boot/modules/*.pkgsave % ls /boot/firmware % ls /boot/kernel % ls /boot/modules (In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) > … A simple improvement to the description or loader(8) … Correction: > … A simple improvement to the description of loader(8) … (In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) > … not sole responsibility; … That's not quite what I meant, but I'll not attempt to correct the meaning in Bugzilla. > … A simple improvement … I'll make a pull request. (In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) I don't see why loader is not responsible for /boot/modules (In reply to Ed Maste from comment #4) Indeed, that's part of what I wanted to correct in comment 0 |