svn commit: r325097 - head

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 05:57:06AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2017 2:25 AM, "Eitan Adler" <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> New Revision: 325097
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325097
> 
> Log:
>   Update UPDATING
> 
>   - Remove FreeBSD 4.x of building the kernel.
> 
> 
> It is not the 4.x way of building the kernel. It's a completely supported
> alte restive for those situations where buildkernel is not a good fit.

+1, it's a lot more straightforward and actually much faster for iterative
kernel builds, allows to inject things into the build process [*], etc.
I can't imagine doing any kernel hacking without the traditional config/
build way.

Would you mind putting the instruction back, perhaps after the "new order"
one, with some accompanying text a-la "mostly for developers/hackers' use"?

./danfe

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