From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 13 15:14:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23FFB150D0; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA24865; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19990513151415.A24853@nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:14:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Smith , John Fieber Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC 3.2-BETA kernel and printing Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199905132143.OAA01582@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199905132143.OAA01582@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:43:34PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > with the 3.2-BETA kernel using the GENERIC configuration file. I print > > > > > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 > > > line to > > > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 ..snip.. > > If it changes to tty, what breaks (and who will that inconvenience)? > > It probably breaks PLIP, ie. network installs for laptops. Is it possible to change `GENERIC' to "tty" and create a new kernel config file, `INSTALL' where we tweak it for things like this. Having 'bpf' active in `GENERIC' for DHCP installs (when we get to it), is another example of where what we need for installs may not be best in `GENERIC'. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message