Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

From: Massimo Lusetti (massimo_at_cedoc.mo.it)
Date: 10/30/05

  • Next message: Cristiano Deana: "Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS" 
    To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:53:55 +0100

    On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 11:36 +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to
    > 'DEFAULTS':
    >
    > device isa
    >
    > device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices
    > device io # I/O device
    >
    > Why?
    > What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized 'GENERIC'?
    > Or those lines are no more mandatory?

    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)."

    Look for discussion in cvs-src@. 

    -- 
Massimo.run();
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