Re: Proposal to enhance boot path selections

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 11 May 2025 at 16:53, Andrew Randrianasulu
<randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> From this page it looks like kern + modules dir will lost modules arch/version information previously plainly visible in path?

That is correct - the modules arch/version information was previously
required in the path, as the modules were stored separately to the
kernels (though it still offered potential issues where a kernel could
use slightly mismatched modules). Plus of course the kernel did not
have the arch/version information in the path.

The new pattern offers the option to have arch/version information
visible in path, plus avoiding any kernel/module mismatch - eg
/netbsd-10.99.65/{kernel,modules}

David