"8.6 The Configuration File" out of date?

[Freddie Cash]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >>
> >> > machine        i386
> >>
> >> What architecture was this for -- amd64, i386, etc?
> >
> > But this line is not at all present in the GENERIC
> > configuration of FreeBSD 8.0 release....
>
> Probably because there was unnecessary overlap with `cpu ...'.
>
> No, it's been moved to DEFAULTS, along with a handful of other things that
should always be present in an i386 kernel (isa, npx, mem, io, etc).

 Same for amd64.  "machine amd64" is in DEFAULTS, not GENERIC.

>> > options          COMPAT_43
> >>
> >> Eh...? This still should be in there according to NOTES.
> >
> > It's not in the GENERIC kernel configuration...
> > There is, however:
> >
> > options         COMPAT_43TTY
> >
> > Is that a mistake then?
>
> Not IIRC; they were just preparing to remove the need for COMPAT_43
> entirely in 8.1 (I think).
>

One does not need COMPAT_43 anymore, as the few remaining bits that are
required were moved to COMPAT_43TTY.  One can build a kernel without
COMPAT_43 (been doing that for awhile now).

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Freddie Cash
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