Re: Compiling NetBSD-HEAD kernel sources

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 19:51, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> This applies to future releases  of NetBSD-HEAD also?

One can't be sure, future versions may have modifications which make
them impossible to modify with a simple patch, e.g.  if for some
reason there is some section rearrangement or sorting. I meant that
such a patch may be a good start to modifying later versions of the
definitions.

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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 1:33 PM Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 18:29, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > When I configure, and compile a kernel from HEAD-sources, can I use a kernel
> > > config-file  from previous NetBSD versions?
> >
> > Most likely not. If I were you, I would diff -u the early GENERIC and
> > your own configuration and try to apply the resulting patch to the
> > GENERIC configuration of HEAD; it probably will fail, but it would be
> > a start.
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