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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:22:57 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardware Notes, "Boot-time Kernel Configuration"
Message-ID:  <20020118082257.E91029@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:53:34PM -0800
References:  <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org>

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:53:34PM -0800, 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 the drivers in the GENERIC kernel configuration (which is out-of-date,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.

Sounds like a reasonable idea to me

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