From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 16:16:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AE61065674 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com (mail-iw0-f204.google.com [209.85.223.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98278FC18 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn42 with SMTP id 42so2486448iwn.14 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:16:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=TtLuPHaoMBvOFszzlozuvRgZZNGbGty/63jxAqlHnv0=; b=xaCCOjnlB76Wi86l7vbHB55cW7/xnmm0xPIBrGDVcK/Ay+DqtssZubcI/wpt9qucAD wL9WBveJhLpCUU1daQkkP3X5QDNu/Jg3hlxCVF3OT6+GL7uICbFBaTMZfxjr++5pXU+g cezia6h796wQ0keVrds2dv1+8QUMLOGDcPBMs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=VvIpz5W7rmY4of0BuRHFvQKBt90D14olLsOXOsGXgdamSzI2sNbXIRFyatLeIFFZBC fnAVC7rzJEuZm60f3thvrZvH53SBPCKXfPhx2KrmEMBb12wjWdLUvvSSyT9kD08Rjfof vJdUYBlTf//qSt8eMfvUT7tMahxC/YPLFq0p8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.14.76 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:16:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <176926.27578.qm@web33306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:16:52 -0700 Received: by 10.231.150.2 with SMTP id w2mr1963003ibv.90.1271693812944; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: "8.6 The Configuration File" out of date? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:16:54 -0000 On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Rob wrote: > > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> > >> > machine i386 > >> > >> What architecture was this for -- amd64, i386, etc? > > > > But this line is not at all present in the GENERIC > > configuration of FreeBSD 8.0 release.... > > Probably because there was unnecessary overlap with `cpu ...'. > > No, it's been moved to DEFAULTS, along with a handful of other things that should always be present in an i386 kernel (isa, npx, mem, io, etc). Same for amd64. "machine amd64" is in DEFAULTS, not GENERIC. >> > options COMPAT_43 > >> > >> Eh...? This still should be in there according to NOTES. > > > > It's not in the GENERIC kernel configuration... > > There is, however: > > > > options COMPAT_43TTY > > > > Is that a mistake then? > > Not IIRC; they were just preparing to remove the need for COMPAT_43 > entirely in 8.1 (I think). > One does not need COMPAT_43 anymore, as the few remaining bits that are required were moved to COMPAT_43TTY. One can build a kernel without COMPAT_43 (been doing that for awhile now). -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com