Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:21:15 +0100 From: h p <regnans@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuration of current kernel Message-ID: <68b3483d05031010213bc7d821@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050310141753.GA55092@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <68b3483d050310012555c067f@mail.gmail.com> <20050310141753.GA55092@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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> # Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. > # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. Uh, OK, I don't quite get what freebsd-newbies is for then... thought this was a newbie question. > The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel > configuration. It's also the one that is distributed with the FreeBSD > release CD-ROMs as the default kernel. Thanks for answering my implicit question as well :-) > Anything that is not compiled in the kernel by the kernel config file > is built as a module and installed as a *.ko file in /boot/kernel. Great. Shouldn't that mean I could use gdbe right away, though? I can't. I'm not going to go OT now, though, I'll recompile, reboot and see what happens. > > Also, there are some features, which don't seem to be documented... > > at least not in the NOTES file. > > You're looking at the wrong NOTES file. There are two NOTES files on > any given architecture that FreeBSD supports: > > 1) The architecture-independent NOTES file, listing options common > to all the possible architectures: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. > Ah right. There we are. Interesting. Thanks! Helge
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