Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

[Scott Robbins]

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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> 
> There are two NOTES files for each CPU architecture.
> 
> One is for the CPU architecture dependent items and is located 
> at /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES  Just replace <arch> with the CPU 
> architecture (i386, amd64, etc).
> 
> The other is for items that apply to all CPU architectures, and is located 
> at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES.
> 
> You have to read both.  The PREEMPTION option is in the second file above.


Judging from the forums and various other things, it seems that a lot of
people aren't aware of the second NOTES file.  (Of course, you can do
make LINT while in <arch>/conf, which I blush to admit, is what I did
before I realized the existance of the second NOTES file.  :)


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Scott

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