From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 3: 8:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-058.telepath.com [216.14.0.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 311D937B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 80118 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2000 10:08:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 05:08:42 -0500 (CDT) To: Donn Miller Cc: Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hints static wiring In-Reply-To: <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> References: <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donn Miller writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the > > relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how > > /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an > > empty one keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot? > Actually, device.hints isn't used in the build process. In that case, why does the kernel build process fail if it doesn't exist? > KERNEL.hints file is hard-coded into the kernel when your kernel is > built (assuming you use one). /boot/device.hints is used to override > the "hardcoded" values of hints, KERNEL.hints, at boot time. Sometimes, > people can make a mistake in KERNEL.hints, and it's necessary to > override those hints with /boot/device.hints. So, device.hints is > created after-the-fact, and not part of the kernel build. Of course, if > you don't have any hints to override, then just install an empty > device.hints file. Will the system fail to boot if there isn't an empty device.hints file?