Re: GENERIC options?

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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:40:09 -0800
> From: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml_at_sd73.bc.ca>
> Subject: Re: GENERIC options?
> To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200402121340.09335.fcash-ml_at_sd73.bc.ca>
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> On February 12, 2004 12:56 pm, Quincey Koziol wrote:
> >     I've been using FreeBSD for ten or more years and I'm just
> > starting to dip my toes into 5-CURRENT.  I'm working on configuring a
> > custom kernel but it doesn't seem right to copy the NOTES file in
> > /usr/src/sys/conf and start hacking on it - there's way too many
> > options!  Which "machine independent" kernel config file does the
> > GENERIC kernel use?
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> /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/GENERIC is the kernel config file used to build 
> the GENERIC kernel.
    Ah!  I thought that the GENERIC kernel config file only contained kernel
options from /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES, but I see now that it contains
kernel options from both places.

    Thanks!
        Quincey

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> All kernel options are listed / documented in:
> 	/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES
> 	/usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES
> where <arch> is the cpu archictere (i386, sparc, alpha, etc).
> 
> -- 
> Freddie Cash
> fcash-ml_at_sd73.bc.ca
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