From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 17 20:12:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A583F37B405; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:12:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (zbay4-210.fyi.net [206.80.157.210]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0I4DhD65717; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:13:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C47A1C1.60904@pittgoth.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:17:05 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Notes, "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" References: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce A. Mah wrote: >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the drivers in the GENERIC kernel configuration (which is out-of-date, 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-doc" in the body of the message > > You will obtain praise from me, mainly the last note is very important to me as a user, I would rather have little documentation than alot of incorrect documentation. Maybe some day we can put this Generic kernel configuration table somewhere in the handbook, opinions? --Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message