Re: "GENERIC.local" useless for items following its inclusion

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

On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 at 03:13, John D. Baker <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> Being very annoyed by wscons on amd64-10.0_BETA (and -current) choosing
> the "Boldface 16x32" font even on low-resolution displays, I figured I'd
> simply disable it using the "GENERIC.local" config file that is conditionally
> included by GENERIC.
>
> Unfortunately, the position at which:
>
>   cinclude "arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC.local"
>
> appears in GENERIC means my:
>
>   no options FONT_BOLD16x32
>
> has no effect, as the font options don't appear in GENERIC until
> much later.
>
> It would seem that if the "GENERIC.local" mechanism is to be of any
> value,
>
>   cinclude "arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC.local"
>
> should be the very last line in the GENERIC config file.
>
> (This would be the case for any platform implementing this feature,
> not just amd64.)

Hi John,

That is definitely... suboptimal.

I've fixed up amd64 and other GENERIC kernel config which already had
an include of GENERIC.local. I'm also going to add it to those missing
it, and look to get a pullup to at least netbsd-10

Thanks

David