Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:47:03 +0530 From: Srinivas <mboxindia@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: options in configuration file Message-ID: <e6a0706a0810030417j4c76317eudf50bb761fe00c5f@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, May be these are beginner questions ... could you plz answer the following questions? I think "options" line and "device" line are in the configuration file, in order to support those features and devices. I see that sed script will parse that file. Could you plz let me know what will be done in this phase and how these lines will be transferred into gcc define directives(in the case of options) and inclusion of source files for compilation(in case of device). I have seen lint in some Makefiles, but dont know why it was used. Why is lint used? The "device" line adds device support to the kernel. What exactly does this mean. A more basic question is: how the devices are detected initially by the FreeBSD with the aid of hardware and bios? I think this is a broad topic. Could you plz provide a link if there is any info, you know, in the net? Thanks, Srinivas
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