From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 10:34:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212A737B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA88730; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:34:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA02634; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:34:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008281734.LAA02634@harmony.village.org> To: Tony Fleisher Subject: Re: hints static wiring Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:32:58 PDT." References: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:34:13 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Tony Fleisher writes: : Just a suggestion, but isn't this the type of thing that : should be added to UPDATING? Quoting from the UPDATING file: ... 20000825: /boot/device.hints is now required for installkernel to succeed. ... 20000612: Peter took an axe to config(8). Besure that you read his mail on the topic before even thinking about updating. You will need to create a /boot/device.hints or add a hints directive to your config file to compile them in statically. The format of the config file has changed as well. Please see GENERIC or NEWCARD for examples of the new format. ... Granted, I did commit the first entry only a few hours before you posted... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message