From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 19:27:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825E816A42B for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:27:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from imap.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330B943D49 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:27:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C2418CCC1 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 69010-01-31 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s9.sbo (s9.sbo [192.168.0.9]) by imap.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F4618CC56 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 12:27:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:27:21 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505241207.35873.fcash@ocis.net> <20050524191424.GA52486@uws1.starlofashions.com> In-Reply-To: <20050524191424.GA52486@uws1.starlofashions.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505241227.22642.fcash@ocis.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches) 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: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:27:26 -0000 On May 24, 2005 12:14 pm, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > > There are two NOTES files for each CPU architecture. > > One is for the CPU architecture dependent items and is located > > at /usr/src/sys//conf/NOTES Just replace with the CPU > > architecture (i386, amd64, etc). > > The other is for items that apply to all CPU architectures, and is > > located at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. > > You have to read both. The PREEMPTION option is in the second file > > above. > Judging from the forums and various other things, it seems that a lot of > people aren't aware of the second NOTES file. (Of course, you can do > make LINT while in /conf, which I blush to admit, is what I did > before I realized the existance of the second NOTES file. :) =46rom the top of /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES: # NOTES -- Lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel and hints configs. # # This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes. For # machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v 1.1168.2.5.2.2 2005/05/01 05:38:13=20 dwhite Exp $ # Like they say, doesn't matter how good the documentation is if nobody reads= =20 it fully. :) =2D-=20 =46reddie Cash fcash@ocis.net