Subject: Re: Where did GENERICAHA and GENERICBT go?
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/17/1995 07:42:14
> I wanted to make a set of distribution floppies, and I've discovered that
> the build process for that refers to the GENERICAHA and GENERICBT kernels,
> which no longer have config files in /sys/arch/i386/conf.  Has the GENERIC
> kernel gotten smart enough to handle both controllers simultaneously?

Yes, it has.

However, the generic kernel is, well...

% ls -la netbsd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 cgd  cgd  1221364 Apr 17 07:31 netbsd
% size netbsd
text    data    bss     dec     hex
1048576 57344   93624   1199544 124db8

"larger" than it used to be.  8-)

it'll need to be trimmed (severely) to fit on a floppy.



chris