Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:55:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.x kernel config changes? Message-ID: <XFMail.20031030145550.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031030194053.GA862@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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On 30-Oct-2003 Leo Bicknell wrote: > > I just built my first 5.1-RELEASE box requiring a custom kernel, and > noticed some interesting things. > > 1) It appears IPFW just works (eg, configure it in /etc/rc.conf). It > used to be you had to compile it in. What's interesting to me is > that IPFW options are not in generic, and I didn't think "options" > could be done in LKM's. What am I missing? It's loaded from the ipfw.ko module. You can build modules for some things that are compiled in using 'options'. > 2) IPDIVERT is missing / doesn't work, so while my IPFW config seemed > to take/work natd did not work. If IPFW is just going to work having > IPDIVERT just work seems like a good idea as well. You will probably need to just include IPFW and IPDIVERT in your kernel config for this to work. > 3) There seems to be no more LINT or other listing of all the options. > Why? In particular I needed "options NETATALK" but couldn't remember > the name and there was no file to quickly grep. Has the list of > options been moved somewhere else? sys/conf/NOTES and sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES > 4) Due to the way the makefiles now work it seems impossible to build a > new kernel after changing just "options" statements and install it > without also rebuilding all the modules...which takes quite some > time. This seems to be because it moves the whole directory out of > the way in /boot. This seems a little suboptimal to me. You can add 'makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes' to your kernel config to have it only build a kernel and no modules. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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