vladas wrote:
Will devs ignore dmesgs from /bsd.rd that would resemble the -current
GENERIC
/bsd (if it is possible to do so)?
I want to send in a few dmesgs from the machines where I cannot install
OpenBSD, so I thought /bsd.rd would help.
There are a lot of reasons why developers want the dmesgs -- a major
reason is to find out how the GENERIC kernel sees the hardware, another
is to get reports of how it actually works with that hardware.
A custom kernel does neither of those tasks. Simply booting bsd.rd
(even an official one) doesn't answer either very well...what happens if
a probe of something in GENERIC that isn't in bsd.rd causes the machine
to lock? What happens if the disk interface is properly recognized..but
doesn't work properly? You would never know if you didn't actually do
the install. The lack of a "didn't work!" message might cause someone
to think it did...
Perhaps even more tantalizing, what if a problem IS seen in the
dmesg...if you can't install, you can't test a fix.
So..I suspect you won't get a lot of excited responses from developers,
in general. Or I could be wrong...
Nick.
