sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC != GENERIC?

[Bruce Walker <bmw_(_at_)_visgen_(_dot_)_com>]

I just built a kernel suitable for an ISA 486 box by copying
conf/GENERIC, commenting-out all the pcmcia, eisa and pci drivers,
and compiling it in the usual way.  (I was motivated to do this
because I had to tweak the settings for the le0 driver to get this
to work with a slighty strange PCnet-32 design on an old Canon
object.station 31.)

The kernel I ended up with worked great but was missing the PCVT
screensaver function.  I thought that was odd because it's in the
GENERIC driver as installed from the CD.  I got the screensaver
back by adding "option PCVT_SCREENSAVER" to my config file and
recompiling.

My question is: isn't "GENERIC" intended to build you a kernel like
what's on the CD?

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