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On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Sean Bruno wrote:

> I've finally gotten a stable qemu image for mips running and will be
> trying out various things for ports.
>=20
> I note that the MALTA config specifies a ROOTDEVNAME that doesn't seem
> to be a buildable configuration.
> e.g. options         ROOTDEVNAME=3D\"ufs:ada0s1a\"
>=20
> Does it make sense to create a new kernel conf for this emulated MALTA
> support or does it make sense to figure out how to make a image that =
can
> be booted via this root device?

Just commit it. This config file has always been for emulation. I missed =
my window to get a real MALTA board years ago, so have never tried it on =
real hardware.

Warner