Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:04:11 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS Message-ID: <F9A66C12E682CAACDCA9003F@cc-126-240.int.t-online.fr> In-Reply-To: <1130669635.4300.3.camel@massimo.datacode.it> References: <d8a4930a0510300236x472292bav@mail.gmail.com> <1130669635.4300.3.camel@massimo.datacode.it>
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+-le 30/10/2005 11:53 +0100, Massimo Lusetti =E9crivait : | On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 11:36 +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote: |=20 |> Hi, |>=20 |> I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to |> 'DEFAULTS': |>=20 |> device isa |>=20 |> device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices |> device io # I/O device |>=20 |> Why? |> What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized |> 'GENERIC'? Or those lines are no more mandatory? |=20 | DEFAULTS will be included automatically by the new config(8), quoting | from markm@ | "Its an anti-foot-shooting thing. Scott was concerned that far too many | people with kernels based on GENERIC before io was made a separate | module were being flummoxed by X not running. This is a way to make | npx, mem and io default for even those kernels, as long as they run a | modern(tm) config(8)." |=20 | Look for discussion in cvs-src@. In that case, how do we remove io or mem so that they get in as kld at boot time ? --=20 Mathieu Arnold
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