custom kernel

Hello All, I am quite new to the freeBSD, but recently I started switching from Linux to freeBSD. The main reason was that I wanted to learn something new. The seconds reason are Jails. I pretty much love them, especially Bastille Jails. They work perfectly in my environment and added the extra...

Hello all, it's 4 days since I trying to make custom kernel and fail with stuck in 'loading kernel modules' (no message just stuck in there). Because I'm curios why this happen, so I try to build another custom kernel without any modification at all, just copy paste the GENERIC as new file...

I built a custom kernel stripping every device entry I didn't find relevant in a copy of the GENERIC conf file. From uname -a, it seems my custom kernel loaded, but in the /boot/kernel directory there are still a gazillion ko files. I thought there was a one to one relationship between these and...

Hello, A bit of introduction: as most FreeBSD beginner users (I suppose), I come from Linux. I want to run FreeBSD on a Sony PCG-C1VN laptop as stated in the thread name, and it is pretty ancient. This is a side project for myself, I want a fun old painful to use portable terminal running...

I would like to apologise in advance, if this is straight-forward, and/or answered elsewhere on the forum--I have tried for the past few hours to look hard before I dared ask any questions, and I combed through the WiFi section of the Handbook, etc. Basically, in short, I am using an EliteBook...

Is it possible to compile FreeBSD kernel with Kernel Address Sanitizer?

I have attached a custom kernel config file for the RPi3B+ with debugging disabled. Debugging options are commented out so can be re-enabled if necessary. Kernel size is 9.9MB. NOTES: 1. Only FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT supports the RPi3B+ and CURRENT is generally not supported on these forums...

So... what's the advantages to building your own kernel, and/or the OS from source? Since I've built everything else... I think there's a guide to building your kernel somewhere, but I don't know if it's still up to date/recommendable...