On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:08:22AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:55:54PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > > > Harald Hoyer wrote: > > > > Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the > > > > kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to 32s on my computer: > > > > > > > floppy > > > > > > I was going to suggest you might want to leave that one out, since I wouldn't > > > think its that common anymore... then I checked, and this is loaded on my > > > machine which has no floppy. > > > > The code to detect if we have a floppy controller lives... in the floppy module. > > It's not something that's trivially detectable like pci/usb devices. > > > > Isn't this (determing wether or not to load floppy.ko) done (on PC's) by > checking if the BIOS has a floppy configured? Hmm, possibly. It looks like if the pnp code finds PNP0700 in the BIOS that a uevent occurs. I found /etc/modprobe.d/floppy-pnp which contains alias pnp:dPNP0700 floppy So yes it looks like disabling that in the BIOS (as long the BIOS stops reporting the PNP object) will make it stop being loaded. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
