On Sep 3, 2011, at 2:02 AM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 3 September 2011 12:35, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 
>> The best way to do this is to find a known working version of the
>> kernel and then "bisect" the version from the known bad and known good
>> versions until you arrive at the breaking commit. It is easier if you
>> look at the svn log to see which commits might matter.  Yes this takes
>> a while, but is the surest way to find the regression.
> 
> You shouldn't have to try many kernels. 130,000 revisions, only a max
> of 18 attempts needed. :)
> 
> No, you don't need a whole buildworld. Just try booting the kernel and
> see when it attaches.

There's a reason I haven't upgraded this system in over a year.  It takes a 
long time to update the src tree and a long time to build a kernel.  I miss the 
2.x/3.x days where you could build world on system like this in about an hour 
or so.

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