Subject: Kernel config documentation (Re: seriousness of this Project)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Onno Ebbinge <onno.ebbinge@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/08/2005 09:27:29
Kernel config documentation is really high on my wish list
and, I guess, a lot of other users...
Regards,
Onno
On 9/8/05, Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>=20
> However, on another note I would really like to see an improvement
> in the kernel documentation. By that I do not mean internals, I
> simply mean on how new users configure it. Similar to how FreeBSD do
> it:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-co=
nfig.html
>=20
> I have seen countless times when the problem users can't get
> they're kernel to compile is due to an incorrect config. If the
> options where correctly documented (to a users basic
> understanding, this excludes basic raw comments in the config
> files) it would make it much nicer for newcomers to understand.
>=20
> Just my opinion.
> --
> - Liam J. Foy
> liamfoy@sepulcrum.org
> http://www.bsd-systems.co.uk
>