From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 16 15:00:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17505 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17232; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA06043; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:03:34 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809162203.IAA06043@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERICupgrade In-Reply-To: <199809161922.FAA25520@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Sep 17, 98 05:22:52 am" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:03:34 +1000 (EST) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- 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