On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:35:57AM -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: > > I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents. > > While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the > > "old style" kernel configuration involving running config(1) manually. > > > > Is there any value in keeping this documented as an alternative to > > "make buildkernel" or should it be treated as an implementation detail? > > I suppose it makes less difference on a modern system where "make > buildkernel" takes 15 minutes or even less, but the manual kernel > build gives the opportunity to rebuild a kernel without building > everything --- as in the case where you just modified something simple > (say USB or PCI device IDs). I'm not talking about the dedicate > kernel developer who should "know things" like this, but the user who > makes these kernel modifications occasionally.
# make buildkernel ... KERNFAST=1 -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
