This is late, but a few hours ago, phk chopped out some old stuff from config(8) and removed some backwards compatability warnings.
A summary of the changes: If you had old "tty", "bio", "net", "cam" flags, these are obsolete and will now cause a syntax error rather than a warning. If you had old "vector xxxintr", it will now cause a syntax error rather than a warning. Most people would have been getting these warnings for a month or so and will have taken them out already. 'config kernel root on xx0' is gone and will cause a (non-fatal) error. The old config line is mostly no longer required. I say mostly, because there are some circumstances where people used it to change the default kernel name or force a different root device to the boot device. Forcing a different root device can be done with the following (in the config file itself, or in /etc/make.conf): options ROOTDEVICE=\"wd0s1e\" If you want to call your kernel something else, try this in the config file: makeoptions KERNEL=vmunix Or use add 'KERNEL=vmunix' to /etc/make.conf, or whatever. This will compile the kernel called "vmunix" and install it as /vmunix and deal with /vmunix.old etc. The KERNEL option has pretty much been working for some time now, although it wasn't "discovered" until now. What does this mean for -current users? Not a lot.. The average user can just delete the config line entirely and forget about it. The old defunct keywords need to be deleted (bio, net, tty, vector etc). It should be noted that config(8) is destined to die sooner or later and almost certainly never make it to a release branch. Removal of the port/irq/iomem/drq etc keywords is on the agenda, but it's not clear if they will go completely away since we need a way to run without loader(8) if possible. The Alpha build is (still) broken... (BTW; Don't shoot the messenger, I didn't delete it. But I do happen to think it's basically OK, apart from the loss of 'config vmunix' - that should be fairly easy to remap if a lot of people are going to be affected. Remember, even with remapping, the config lines would need an edit.) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
