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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 06:28:05 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
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 
Message-ID:  <19990509222807.590741F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 06:39:46 %2B1000." <199905092039.GAA15011@cimlogic.com.au> 

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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



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