Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

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Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
Date
24 May 2005 19:14:26
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Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)
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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
>
> There are two NOTES files for each CPU architecture.
>
> One is for the CPU architecture dependent items and is located
> at /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES Just replace <arch> with the CPU
> architecture (i386, amd64, etc).
>
> The other is for items that apply to all CPU architectures, and is located
> at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES.
>
> You have to read both. The PREEMPTION option is in the second file above.


Judging from the forums and various other things, it seems that a lot of
people aren't aware of the second NOTES file. (Of course, you can do
make LINT while in <arch>/conf, which I blush to admit, is what I did
before I realized the existance of the second NOTES file. :)


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