Re: Compiling an OBSD kernel

[Kenneth R Westerback <kwesterback_(_at_)_home_(_dot_)_com>]

This is just plain wrong. I have never replaced any of the
'?'s as you suggest and I have compiled hundreds of times and
customized a number of different kernels for various machines.

The '?'s indicate information that will be discovered at boot
time, as was done to generate the messages in /var/log/messages.

And if you are looking for this information, you can more
easily check /var/run/dmesg.boot, which holds the messages
generated during the boot process, but no others.

.... Ken

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:18:56PM -0600, PC Drew wrote:
> This is a great place to start:
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html
> 
> Also note (I don't think it says this), part of your Kernel
> Configuration task is to replace all of the "?"s in the file with the
> exact numbers of the devices.  To do this, open another window with
> your /var/log/messages file in it.  Here's an example:
> 
> A line from my GENERIC kernel:
> 
> pchb* at pci? dev ? function ? # PCI-Host bridges
> 
> This entry was in my /var/log/messages file:
> 
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VLSI Technology 82C592 CPU" rev 0x00
> 
> So I changed the line in my kernel config to look like this:
> 
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 # PCI-Host bridges
> 
> Also, if there are things in your GENERIC kernel config that don't
> show up in your /var/log/messages file, then comment them out of your
> kernel config file.
> 
> --
> PC Drew
> 
> 
> Thus spake Chris Cameron on Wednesday, September 06, 2000, 6:00:42 PM:
> 
> CC> Can someone point me to documentation on compiling a new kernel? 
> CC> I've tried finding stuff in the man pages, but that's helped little.
> 
> CC> THanks,
> CC> Chris
> 
> 
>