[ On Sunday, April 22, 2001 at 14:02:30 (-0700), David Querbach wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Documentation for autoconf system
>
> There are two papers which explain the workings of the xBSD configuration
> system, one of which is referred to by name on the config(8) man page, the
> other of which appeared recently on the NetBSD web site.
> 
> You can start with
> 
> 	Building 4.4BSD Kernels with Config by Samuel J. Leffler and
> 	Michael J. Karels

FYI there's a copy of that paper in both its original troff source form,
as well as a PostScript rendition, in any original distribution of
4.4BSD, including 4.4BSD-Lite and 4.4BSD-Lite2.

I really don't understand why it isn't included in the NetBSD tree
too...  Of course it's a bit out of date, but it would probably be
easier for any random NetBSD user to contribute updates if it were part
of the NetBSD distribution and a specific note was included 

In fact there are a number of papers and other parts of the standard BSD
manuals that have not been included in NetBSD....

> Follow this with
> 
> 	Device Configuration in 4.4 BSD by Chris Torek
> 
> This paper can be found at
> 
> 	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/config-torek.ps
> 
> This latter paper goes into the internals of the configuration system in
> considerable detail. 

I wonder if permission was granted to circulate that paper -- the notice
within it says it's not to be re-curiculated....  I wish I'd known about
it though before I figured out most of that stuff the hard way....  :-)

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