From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 31 12:53:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03981 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:53:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03971 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA06472; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 20:53:00 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34D38F2C.2245BCAA@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 20:53:00 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chaos@tgci.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (Fwd) Please help! GENERIC98 kernel file References: <199801312041.MAA04391@train.tgci.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I always thought GENERIC98 was a kernel config for a PC98 machine, which are apparently all the rage in Japan, 'intel' like, but not quite... (i.e. I don't think you can / could use a GENERIC98 kernel on a standard Intel PC? - or at least not well...) If it's an Intel PC - and not a Japanese PC98 type machine - use GENERIC as the base for the kernel config... However someone will probably know differently... Riley J. McIntire wrote: > > No one's responded to the below and I'd really appreciate a pointer > to *any* docs or comments on the subject of GENERIC98. > > I've compared GENERIC and GENERIC98 and they're different enough to > make me wonder what to use in which circumstances??? > > I see that my first impression that GENERIC98 is for wd/scis drives > was in error. Is GENERIC98 for newer machines? It wouldn't seem > so from the list of CPUs. > > Thanks for you time, > > Riley > > Should I use this file or GENERIC as a template? The 98 file states > it's for "Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family *disks*". It > looks like it means *controllers*?