On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:52:29 -0700
"Erik E. Fair" <fair@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> NetBSD runs on a lot of weird hardware, much of which is configured
> through time-consuming trial and error. I think it might help our users if
> we made available a gallery of system-specific kernel configurations on the
> web site, organized by NetBSD release, and by port, and then by configuration file.
[snip]
> I want to distinguish this from configurations that The NetBSD Project
> maintains (or doesn't maintain) in its source repository - those have (in some
> sense) a stronger guarantee of working, whereas what I am suggesting is,
> "here's one that worked for me at the time I posted it here."
> 
> Comments?

If so, possible kernel configs should be created for real machine
models only, not just for motherboards or so. Various expansion cards
may be supported by adding appropriate drivers to the new file, which
includes the NetBSD reference config.

--
Mishka.