How to generate and test GENERIC-STABLE kernel ?

[Wes Peters]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 22:27, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether the GENERIC files (e.g. in
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) are also updated when I cvsup the
> source-tree for building a new world and kernel. Haven't seen any
> change to GENERIC so far.

Yes, they are.  The GENERIC file isn't changed all that often in STABLE 
right now, because it is, er, "stable."  ;^)

> I suppose for testing the new upcoming release, we should also verify
> whether the GENERIC kernel works properly, shouldn't we?

Yes, that would be nice.

> If yes, what's the proper way of doing that?

Build a GENERIC kernel, install it, boot it, run a bunch of software on 
it and make sure it runs adequately.  As an interested aside, benchmark 
something you use a lot on GENERIC and on your custom kernel and verify 
your custom kernel is at least as fast, perhaps faster, than GENERIC.

Alternatively, once the Release Candidate builds start popping up, 
download ISO images and install from them on a variety of hardware to 
verify sysinstall & etc. are still functioning well, too.

Thank you for volunteering!

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         "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                              wes at softweyr.com