GENERIC and DEFAULTS

[Mathieu Arnold]

+-le 30/10/2005 11:53 +0100, Massimo Lusetti écrivait :
| On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 11:36 +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote:
| 
|> Hi,
|> 
|> I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to
|> 'DEFAULTS':
|> 
|> device          isa
|> 
|> device          mem             # Memory and kernel memory devices 	
|> device          io              # I/O device
|> 
|> Why?
|> What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized
|> 'GENERIC'? Or those lines are no more mandatory?
| 
| DEFAULTS will be included automatically by the new config(8), quoting
| from markm@
| "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)."
| 
| Look for discussion in cvs-src at .

In that case, how do we remove io or mem so that they get in as kld at boot
time ?

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Mathieu Arnold