From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 18 8:19:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D83037B417; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:19:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020118161902.DSPQ26243.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:19:02 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0IGJ2B44633; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200201181619.g0IGJ2B44633@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Tom Rhodes Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Notes, "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" In-reply-to: <3C47A1C1.60904@pittgoth.com> References: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org> <3C47A1C1.60904@pittgoth.com> Comments: In-reply-to Tom Rhodes message dated "Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:17:05 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:19:02 -0800 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 If memory serves me right, Tom Rhodes wrote: > 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? I'd like to keep this in the release documentation, because these documents (e.g. the Hardware Notes, Release Notes, etc.) are tied to a specific revision of FreeBSD, just like the GENERIC kernel configuration. (This is why the release notes live where they do in the CVS repository, and why they are branched the same way as the rest of src/.) While the Handbook generally documents the most recent released version of FreeBSD, it's much less version-specific. Bruce. PS. If one were to take a snapshot of this as-yet-non-existent table, put it in the Handbook, and add a notation that it "Applies to FreeBSD FOO.BAR-RELEASE, Your Mileage May Vary", I'd have no objection. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message