From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 29 10:38:42 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 A2E4837B423; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:38:39 -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 LAA94053; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:38:34 -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 LAA10122; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:38:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008291738.LAA10122@harmony.village.org> To: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: hints static wiring Cc: "David O'Brien" , Greg Lehey , Mike Meyer , Maxim Sobolev , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:32:28 PDT." <20000829103228.A27726@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20000829103228.A27726@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <39AA5DC6.8D73081B@FreeBSD.org> <14762.24829.363032.115605@guru.mired.org> <39AA6699.41E12730@FreeBSD.org> <14762.26659.335.344828@guru.mired.org> <20000829102526.A11422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000828182921.A31041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20000829103024.A5567@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:38:16 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000829103228.A27726@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes: : On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:30:24AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: : > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: : > > This is minimally correct. I.e. that's what the build system requires. : > > This works if you build static hints into your kernel. : > : > Please stop saying FUD. The *INSTALL* system requires : > /boot/device.hints. The *BUILD* process does not. : : That's what I ment. I ment build as opposed to runtime. I committed some changes to UPDATING that I think are complete, fair and accurate. Please look at the new UPDATING file and let me know what you think. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message