Re: GENERIC - Raising the bar

[Adrian Nida <nida@xxxxxxxx>]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Note that FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x do not include the 386 code in
> the default GENERIC kernel.  The installer CD might be compiled
> with "cpu I386_CPU" included, but the GENERIC kernel does not...

Just curious, here.

What would be the harm in having GENERIC.386, GENERIC.486, etc. and then 
programmatically setting up GENERIC as a symlink to the one closest 
matching the hardware?

Adrian

P.S.  Garance, sorry for the duplication, I just switched to Thunder 
Bird, and am still adjusting.
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