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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:05:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users)
Subject:   Re: Build is complete
Message-ID:  <199609130805.KAA19112@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199609121833.LAA07312@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 12, 96 11:33:07 am

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Terry Lambert writes:
>
>>>> you don't have vn configured into your kernel. :-)
>>>
>>> Indeed.  I suppose this should be documented.
>>
>> And indeed it is, on page 220 of your very own "The Complete FreeBSD"
>> book. :-)
>
> It should be documented in /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.

Maybe, but it isn't:

  revision 1.45.2.2
  date: 1995/06/05 17:15:42;  author: davidg;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -4
  Removed eg driver, speaker, and vn devices to help reduce the size of the
  GENERIC kernel.

> There should be nothing in the build process which relies on anything
> not in the generic kernel.

That seems reasonable at first sight, but on the other hand, how many
people build releases?

Greg



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