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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:03:34 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERICupgrade
Message-ID:  <199809162203.IAA06043@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199809161922.FAA25520@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Sep 17, 98 05:22:52 am"

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> >  Modified files:
> >    sys/i386/conf        GENERICupgrade 
> >  Log:
> >  Make this somewhat cam-compatible.
> 
> I thought that the point of this file was to store rotted bits so that
> it could be bootstrapped from a 2.2.x system :-).  It's not clear how
> this should work - 2.2.x's config won't work.

The idea is that this file is the same as GENERIC and replaced on a
custom system that needs to be upgraded from 2.2.X (X=5,6,7) to 3.0
if the GENERIC one is unsuitable. I thought people might want to keep
GENERIC as distributed.

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John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137



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