Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:05:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm fixing the build/install kernel target Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007151104040.38354-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007151940450.26012-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
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I just got through a similar discussion in NetBSD, where somebody wants to take the probe results of a GENERIC kernel and emit a specific config file for the hardware configuration just found. This would be an *excellent* summer project for a grad student somewhere. Anyone know someone who's got time on their hands and an itch to do something valuable like this and generate a paper? On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > If you feel that kernel reconfiguration is a must for the novice user (the one > > who might get bit by not paying attention to overwriting a bootable kernel, > > i.e., not using the current 'make install', which will most certainly leave > > you with a bootable kernel/modules set if the new one is wrong), then instead > > of making this process super safe, I suggest that the install tools are a > > better place to do this. We should then take the approach that, say, Tru64 > > takes, and reconfig and rebuild a kernel specific for a user's configuration > > as part of the install process. > > Actually, this would, IMHO, be the most worthwhile way out, in that it > would reduce the chance of newbies biting themselves where it hurts. I > think it would also probably be welcome to spend as little time as you > need to for the experienced ones, as well. > > Marius > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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