From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 18 8:35:18 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 033C437B402; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0IGaMD67470; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:36:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C4850BA.4020304@pittgoth.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:43:38 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Notes, "Boot-time Kernel Configuration" References: <200201180353.g0I3rZk38880@bmah.dyndns.org> <3C47A1C1.60904@pittgoth.com> <200201181619.g0IGJ2B44633@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: > 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. > > > > > HAHA, if only I had the time.... Maybe some day, I will, but I think I would start from scratch. What is a possibility though, is a section of "what hardware does FreeBSD support by the default kernel, the boot kernel and blah blah. I am not sure, however, if this is already done somewhere that I overlooked or not :) -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message