Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:16:50 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? Message-ID: <xzpd68ezsnh.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200402161839.i1GId0He055844@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> (Quincey Koziol's message of "Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:39:00 -0600 (CST)") References: <200402161839.i1GId0He055844@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes: > I've been running FreeBSD for many years without contributing much other > than bug reports and I'd like to help a bit. I'd like to make the contents > of the GENERIC configuration file (for 5-CURRENT) more similar to the contents > of the NOTES files, in order to ease creating custom kernel configurations. Don't. NOTES and GENERIC have very specific and very different purposes. NOTES is designed to maximize coverage, while GENERIC is designed to work on as many different systems as possible. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.nohelp
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