From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 15 11: 5:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAEA37C5C0; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19562; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:05:35 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:05:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm fixing the build/install kernel target In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just got through a similar discussion in NetBSD, where somebody wants to take the probe results of a GENERIC kernel and emit a specific config file for the hardware configuration just found. This would be an *excellent* summer project for a grad student somewhere. Anyone know someone who's got time on their hands and an itch to do something valuable like this and generate a paper? On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > If you feel that kernel reconfiguration is a must for the novice user (the one > > who might get bit by not paying attention to overwriting a bootable kernel, > > i.e., not using the current 'make install', which will most certainly leave > > you with a bootable kernel/modules set if the new one is wrong), then instead > > of making this process super safe, I suggest that the install tools are a > > better place to do this. We should then take the approach that, say, Tru64 > > takes, and reconfig and rebuild a kernel specific for a user's configuration > > as part of the install process. > > Actually, this would, IMHO, be the most worthwhile way out, in that it > would reduce the chance of newbies biting themselves where it hurts. I > think it would also probably be welcome to spend as little time as you > need to for the experienced ones, as well. > > Marius > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message