From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 14:45:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5FD106566B for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:45:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC368FC26 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcje9 with SMTP id je9so5401783bkc.13 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:45:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=IeV+XhwNFqA9HL+RaZ8RlyP0QcjPpN1Oo7w9fbbC+rs=; b=m9RWpJd1e5VnJ2cRkrPuMRzUy89kTQ3aKVyeaLWTS5ZFNvdu/ZT0lsooOa56C1724S e6aN2FuEtTxn3/v2SzYTXTrGmcIigK4wgWv2vdcPAhk2hAy+iMUnXJopRtGXY1ap9H9E hLH7bkva4R9C06j3C4n9iSotBJNATf4xajUcct94cVP7JqFsZDfgSgQeFabpEfMl4xrG u9YcIfqtF5P6xPaaHozUf1WNVySQ3V6OuXBDHoTVUCmfKoXKFLpZZJiz+b+XMzc9Oktr Qw9jiE+yWMCgOyDKlK+CGMATfm+8SegtRCxz8TMvXpE2OigqCTuFFxnirdKl18EXaSjO Oghg== Received: by 10.152.48.37 with SMTP id i5mr17030162lan.36.1343054738681; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:45:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hz16sm13717294lab.6.2012.07.23.07.45.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <500D638F.5060605@my.gd> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:45:35 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <7f67bff6fd47ae9076c8dc5e16629acd@antiszoc.hu> In-Reply-To: <7f67bff6fd47ae9076c8dc5e16629acd@antiszoc.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkyUKRSyE4i/pxmQwPjJzfFQbjJp2GCOu6KSfNqHUGsyda1lxcI1v7iGqysgnHbYpsgX8j+ Subject: Re: Compiling 8.3 kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:45:40 -0000 On 7/23/12 2:37 PM, Gót András wrote: > Dear All, > > In the weekend I tried to compile a custom AMD64 8.3 kernel. It started > as a normal buildworld + buildkernel update from 8.3 and it turned out > that without the FREEBSD_COMPAT6 and maybe LIB32 kernel config option > the system won't boot into multiuser. It was mount and something else > that crashed with a sig11 and therefore I left in single user mode. > Somehow I left FREEBSD_COMPAT7 also in the config, but I'd sort that out > also if possible. Of course the machine booted with the GENERIC kernel > even after installworld which went fine in single user mode. > > I've found the following in the handbook, regarding the : > "This option is required to support applications compiled on FreeBSD 6.X > versions that use FreeBSD 6.X system call interfaces." > > I thought it won't be needed by default. There's nothing special in the > kernel config file. I just sorted out unwanted devices (e.g: bluetooth, > wifi, non-gbit nics etc.) and options from the GENERIC config file. If > the new config or any other machine details needed please let me know. > > Regards, > Andras Got Keep the COMPAT options to avoid running into problems. Also, regarding the customization of configuration files, see this article from Warren Block: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/kernelconfig.html