From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Jan 17 19:53:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EBA37B404; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:53:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020118035335.UVFK5944.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 03:53:35 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0I3rZk38880; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:53:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware Notes, "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:53:34 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all-- Unless there's any vehement objection, I'm going to remove the "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" Section from the i386 hardware notes for 4.5 (it's already gone from the alpha). It documents two things: 1) the drivers in the GENERIC kernel configuration (which is out-of-date, and doesn't cover the stripped-down kernels at all, which I think is way more critical). 2) UserConfig (which is better-described in the Handbook anyways). I'm hoping that some version of the GENERIC kernel configuration table will return (ideally, it'd also cover the kernels we put on the floppies, as well as be multi-architecture). However, it probably won't make it in time for 4.5-RELEASE, and I'd rather we send the release out with less information, rather than information that we know is wrong to begin with. Comments? Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message