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Subject: Re: May be include in GENERIC option INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE?
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> I'm planning on including standard files so that we can easily add things in 
> one place instead of many that will be better than DEFAULTS in the next 
> month or so.  I've worked through several prototypes, none of which have 
> been suitable to share with the wider world, but each one better than the 
> one before...  I'll post to arch@ when I have a proposal.

Right, at this point what I'd really like to see is a sys/conf/GENERIC, 
GENERIC.std or the like that we can add generic things to in an MI fashion, 
which each architecture-specific GENERIC can explicitly include.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge