From owner-cvs-all Sun May 9 15:28:16 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040BB151E8; Sun, 9 May 1999 15:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590741F72; Mon, 10 May 1999 06:28:05 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Birrell Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT Makefile.i386 files.i386 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 06:39:46 +1000." <199905092039.GAA15011@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:28:05 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990509222807.590741F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Birrell wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Major lobotomy of config(8). The > > > > config kernel mumble mumble > > > > line has been obsoleted and removed and with it went all knowledge of > > devices on the part of config. > > Does this change mean that it is no longer possible to choose the name > of the "kernel"? I was using this "feature" for embedded kernels that > get loaded into flash on boards. These embedded kernels aren't general, > so I thought they deserved to have board-specific names. As long as you are building no more than one kernel per compile area, you should be able to set the kernel name via 'makeoptions KERNEL=kernel.board' or whatever. Is this sufficient? Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message