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Subject: Re: GENERIC options?
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On February 12, 2004 12:56 pm, Quincey Koziol wrote:
>     I've been using FreeBSD for ten or more years and I'm just
> starting to dip my toes into 5-CURRENT.  I'm working on configuring a
> custom kernel but it doesn't seem right to copy the NOTES file in
> /usr/src/sys/conf and start hacking on it - there's way too many
> options!  Which "machine independent" kernel config file does the
> GENERIC kernel use?

/usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/GENERIC is the kernel config file used to build 
the GENERIC kernel.

All kernel options are listed / documented in:
	/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES
	/usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES
where <arch> is the cpu archictere (i386, sparc, alpha, etc).

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Freddie Cash
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