Subject: Re: Kernel config documentation (Re: seriousness of this Project)
To: Onno Ebbinge <onno.ebbinge@gmail.com>
From: uhel <uhel@gmx.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/08/2005 13:17:34
Hi,

> Kernel config documentation is really high on my wish list
> and, I guess, a lot of other users...

what kind of documentation do you have in mind?
The options are described in *man options*. That seems to be the same
as the link to the FreeBSD handbook but textmode only ;)

There are many things described in the man-pages sadly often without
any examples.

> Regards,
> Onno


> On 9/8/05, Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>> 
>> However, on another note I would really like to see an improvement
>> in the kernel documentation. By that I do not mean internals, I
>> simply mean on how new users configure it. Similar to how FreeBSD do
>> it:
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
>> 
>> I have seen countless times when the problem users can't get
>> they're kernel to compile is due to an incorrect config. If the
>> options where correctly documented (to a users basic
>> understanding, this excludes basic raw comments in the config
>> files) it would make it much nicer for newcomers to understand.
>> 
>> Just my opinion.
>> --
>>                - Liam J. Foy
>>                liamfoy@sepulcrum.org
>>                http://www.bsd-systems.co.uk
>>

--
Regards,
Uli

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