Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:22:57 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Notes, "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" Message-ID: <20020118082257.E91029@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:53:34PM -0800 References: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:53:34PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Hi all-- > > Unless there's any vehement objection, I'm going to remove the > "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" Section from the i386 hardware notes > for 4.5 (it's already gone from the alpha). It documents two things: 1) > the drivers in the GENERIC kernel configuration (which is out-of-date, > and doesn't cover the stripped-down kernels at all, which I think is way > more critical). 2) UserConfig (which is better-described in the > Handbook anyways). > > I'm hoping that some version of the GENERIC kernel configuration table > will return (ideally, it'd also cover the kernels we put on the > floppies, as well as be multi-architecture). However, it probably won't > make it in time for 4.5-RELEASE, and I'd rather we send the release out > with less information, rather than information that we know is wrong to > begin with. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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