From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 18:21:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED0916A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:21:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF23D43D4C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:21:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from regnans@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so665065wri for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=KGT8mwqH3XJwJAmZaZmsON/zn9t8zBiZFojr396q/mR8x/6iZYJrw1hK+nhaxfyhiuDvZ5dPUzZKXFcIiYjHob2l4bKQbWziLY3b3cggDxw7cn8YqAGPmDziBi8otg9VIVdeYkKLKi2eUpcZgXZRU6BoNupVSl0hItEI3y70gow= Received: by 10.54.49.36 with SMTP id w36mr346560wrw; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.53.70 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <68b3483d05031010213bc7d821@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:21:15 +0100 From: h p To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050310141753.GA55092@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <68b3483d050310012555c067f@mail.gmail.com> <20050310141753.GA55092@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Subject: Re: Configuration of current kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: h p List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:21:16 -0000 > # Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. > # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. Uh, OK, I don't quite get what freebsd-newbies is for then... thought this was a newbie question. > The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel > configuration. It's also the one that is distributed with the FreeBSD > release CD-ROMs as the default kernel. Thanks for answering my implicit question as well :-) > Anything that is not compiled in the kernel by the kernel config file > is built as a module and installed as a *.ko file in /boot/kernel. Great. Shouldn't that mean I could use gdbe right away, though? I can't. I'm not going to go OT now, though, I'll recompile, reboot and see what happens. > > Also, there are some features, which don't seem to be documented... > > at least not in the NOTES file. > > You're looking at the wrong NOTES file. There are two NOTES files on > any given architecture that FreeBSD supports: > > 1) The architecture-independent NOTES file, listing options common > to all the possible architectures: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. > Ah right. There we are. Interesting. Thanks! Helge