Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:56:32 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5? Message-ID: <431C6AB0.5030709@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050905102316.3e0a8c79.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200509041341.05026@harrymail> <20050905081618.1364ab59.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <48049.145.248.192.30.1125923128.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <20050905090554.20edf7db.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <431C4E66.2070706@dial.pipex.com> <20050905102316.3e0a8c79.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: >Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > > > >>Bill Moran wrote: >> >> >> >>>You're correct. >>> >>>I guess I understand why they split NOTES up, but it sure makes it >>>a PITA to figure out what options are available ;) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>% cat ../../conf/NOTES NOTES > LINT.mine >> >>It's not rocket science :) >> >> > >Not if you understand it. Apparently, there are machine independent >and machine dependent NOTES files (one MI-NOTES, and a NOTES for each >arch). > > Well, I "understood" it by looking in the Makefile in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf which contains a way of making the LINT kernel. Prior to building my first 5.4 kernel two months ago, I had no idea any of this had been done. I always made my (4.X and prior) kernels based on LINT (better comments), and when it wasn't there I went looking for it. --Alex
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