In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Meyer writes:
: Maxim Sobolev writes:
: > Mike Meyer wrote:
: >
: > > Donn Miller writes:
: > > > Mike Meyer wrote:
: > > > > I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the
: > > > > relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how
: > > > > /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an
: > > > > empty one keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot?
: > > > Actually, device.hints isn't used in the build process.
: > > In that case, why does the kernel build process fail if it doesn't
: > > exist?
: > Probably because you have `hints "BLABLA.hints"' line in your kernel config
: > file.
:
: That doesn't really answer the question. Yup, I use
: GENERIC.hints. That exists. I can see why that not existing would
: cause problems, but not /boot/device.hints? *Especially* when I'm
: building a kernel for a different machine?
The build of the kernel isn't forbidden by not having
/boot/device.hints, just the install. I just copied my GENERIC.hints
to /boot/device.hints and things were happy.
: That's clearly not true - I just removed an empty /boot/device.hints
: and rebooted, and all those things work fine. I can believe that such
: things won't work if they aren't specified in some hints file, but an
: empty /boot/device.hints doesn't do anything more to specify them than
: one that isn't there.
Specifically, the console will not work without hints. These hints
can be compiled in or in /boot/device.hints. You need to have
hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
hint.vga.0.at="isa"
hint.sc.0.at="isa"
hint.sc.0.flags="0x100"
At a minimum, but I might be mistaken about that.
Warner
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