I just updated a server to 6.2; unfortunately this box has an oddball SOL com2 on irq10 so I need to run 'config -e' on the kernel to update it and make the serial console work. I noticed afterwards in the boot messages it was complaining about kernel reordering failures, and thinking I was fixing it, I updated the file /var/db/kernel.SHA256 with the hash of my modified kernel. I quickly discovered that resulted in a successfully reordered kernel with a stock com2 irq :(.
I didn't see anything in the config man page or faq about interaction between kernel reordering and config on a binary kernel. In hindsight I see that the hash check is to keep from replacing a locally modified kernel. Is there a supported way to both fix hardcoded settings on a stock kernel and use reordering? Or do you need to update your settings in the config and compile a kernel from scratch? If you do, does /usr/share/compile automatically get populated with your new kernel objects and reordering just starts working, or do you need to do something manually to get it running with a locally compiled kernel? Thanks...
