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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:16:50 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES?
Message-ID:  <xzpd68ezsnh.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200402161839.i1GId0He055844@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> (Quincey Koziol's message of "Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:39:00 -0600 (CST)")
References:  <200402161839.i1GId0He055844@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

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Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
>     I've been running FreeBSD for many years without contributing much ot=
her
> than bug reports and I'd like to help a bit.  I'd like to make the conten=
ts
> of the GENERIC configuration file (for 5-CURRENT) more similar to the con=
tents
> of the NOTES files, in order to ease creating custom kernel configuration=
s.

Don't.  NOTES and GENERIC have very specific and very different
purposes.  NOTES is designed to maximize coverage, while GENERIC is
designed to work on as many different systems as possible.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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