> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Chris H wrote: > >>> Hi Chris, >>> >>> Friday, November 23, 2012, 11:50:16 PM, you wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you! Yes, I _did_ know k7 was actually i(x)86, but figured config(8) >>>> would "throw me a bone" if it were wrong. Greetings, and thank you for your reply. >>>> Anyway, I'll take your advice. >>> >>> There are some architecture specific settings there, so it is best to >>> actually do this and fail it early (well if you would do buildkernel >>> it would be earlier :) than getting some strange errors. >>> >>> If you were thinking to just copy it to i386 directory, to save you >>> future issues, I would recommend you to redo the config based on >>> GENERIC in i386 directory. >> >> Understood. That's what I did (i386/GENERIC --> CUSTOM). >> I _knew_ there would be issue(s) otherwise. >> >> Thank you again for the advice. Looks to be working as expected. :) > > Rather than copy and modify, a custom config can include the GENERIC > config and override settings. That generally makes the custom config > file smaller and easier to maintain: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/kernelconfig.html
Excellent advice. In fact I now feel fairly embarrassed, as your suggestion seems so _obvious_. :P Thanks, that will _definitely_ be my course of action, going forward (as will cross-compiling on my 6 core AMD64 for this k7) :) Best wishes. --Chris > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"