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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:21:15 +0100
From:      h p <regnans@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Configuration of current kernel
Message-ID:  <68b3483d05031010213bc7d821@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050310141753.GA55092@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
References:  <68b3483d050310012555c067f@mail.gmail.com> <20050310141753.GA55092@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>

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> # Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies.
> # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list.
Uh, OK, I don't quite get what freebsd-newbies is for then... thought
this was a newbie question.

> The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel
> configuration.  It's also the one that is distributed with the FreeBSD
> release CD-ROMs as the default kernel.
Thanks for answering my implicit question as well :-)

> Anything that is not compiled in the kernel by the kernel config file
> is built as a module and installed as a *.ko file in /boot/kernel.

Great. Shouldn't that mean I could use gdbe right away, though? I
can't. I'm not going to go OT now, though, I'll recompile, reboot and
see what happens.

> > Also, there are some features, which don't seem to be documented...
> > at least not in the NOTES file.
> 
> You're looking at the wrong NOTES file.  There are two NOTES files on
> any given architecture that FreeBSD supports:
> 
>   1) The architecture-independent NOTES file, listing options common
> to all the possible architectures: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES.
> 
Ah right. There we are. Interesting.
 
Thanks!

Helge



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