From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 23 13:43:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E0037BA70 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12YFNd-0002tN-0X; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:43:01 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA85515; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:45:28 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:50:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: nm Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel config files In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000323111910.033cb1f0@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, nm wrote: > This may have been suggested already. > > How about having a customized kernel configuration > file for each different alpha system. For example, > have one for the AS200 that would support the on > board sound hardware. This would take some of > the guess work out of a custom kernel. > > Comments? For 4.1, I expect to be able to read the firmware device descriptions in a similar way to the x86 port's PNPBIOS support. This should automagically detect such things as sound cards etc. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message