cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC

[Mark Murray]

"David O'Brien" writes:
>>   Create a default kernel config for i386 and move 'device isa' and
>>   'device npx' (both of which aren't really optional right now) and
>>   'device io' and 'device mem' (to preserve POLA for 4.x users upgrading
>>   to 6.0) from GENERIC into DEFAULTS.
>
>I may be missing something.  I don't quite follow the benefit of the new
>'DEFAULTS' file.  I'm also curious why we don't explicitly 'include'
>DEFAULTS in GENERIC vs. the new automagic include feature.

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).

>I wonder if someone might trip over this not realizing everything that
>winds up in their config file.  I for one have been using io.ko and
>mem.ko after coping GENERIC to FOO and removing the 'io' and 'mem'
>devices.

Now, you'll get the error that they are already loaded. If you don't want
that, you can remove them from DEFAULTS.

I have a plan to improve this in the medium term, but this involves a bit
more config(8) work.

M
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