Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:16:52 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "8.6 The Configuration File" out of date? Message-ID: <r2ob269bc571004190916o6989868bzcc0f49da15fd3fba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <q2u7d6fde3d1004190812xd02fd055z2993d94c208045f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <176926.27578.qm@web33306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <q2u7d6fde3d1004190812xd02fd055z2993d94c208045f7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> 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
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