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<!-- $Id: kernelconfig.sgml,v 1.3 1999-07-28 20:26:07 nik Exp $ -->
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<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<sect>
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<heading>Kernel Configuration<label id="kernelconfig"></heading>
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<sect1>
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<heading>
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I'd like to customize my kernel. Is it difficult?
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<label id="make-kernel">
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</heading>
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<p>Not at all! Check out the <url url="../handbook/kernelconfig.html"
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name="kernel config section of the Handbook">.
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<p><bf/NOTE:/ I recommend making a dated snapshot of your kernel
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in <tt/kernel.YYMMDD/ after you get it all working, that way if
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you do something dire the next time you play with your configuration
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you can boot that kernel instead of having to go all the way back
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to <tt/kernel.GENERIC/. This is particularly important if you're
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now booting off a controller that isn't supported in the GENERIC
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kernel (yes, personal experience).
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<sect1>
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<heading>
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My kernel compiles fail because <tt/_hw_float/ is missing.
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</heading>
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<p>Let me guess. You removed <htmlurl
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?npx(4)" name="npx0"> from your
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kernel configuration file because you don't have a math co-processor,
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right? Wrong! :-) The <tt/npx0/ is <bf/MANDATORY/. Even if you don't
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have a mathematic co-processor, you <bf/must/ include the <tt/npx0/
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device.
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<sect1>
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<heading>Interrupt conflicts with multi-port serial code.</heading>
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<p><bf/Q./ When I compile a kernel with multi-port serial code, it
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tells me that only the first port is probed and the rest skipped due to
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interrupt conflicts. How do I fix this?
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<p><bf/A./ The problem here is that FreeBSD has code built-in to keep
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the kernel from getting trashed due to hardware or software
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conflicts. The way to fix this is to leave out the IRQ settings
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on all but one port. Here is a example:
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<verb>
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#
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# Multiport high-speed serial line - 16550 UARTS
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#
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device sio2 at isa? port 0x2a0 tty irq 5 flags 0x501 vector siointr
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device sio3 at isa? port 0x2a8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
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device sio4 at isa? port 0x2b0 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
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device sio5 at isa? port 0x2b8 tty flags 0x501 vector siointr
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</verb>
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<sect1>
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<heading>How do I enable support for QIC-40/80 drives?</heading>
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<p>You need to uncomment the following line in the generic config
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file (or add it to your config file), add a ``<tt/flags 0x1/''
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on the <htmlurl url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdc(4)"
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name="fdc"> line and recompile.
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<verb>
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controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 flags 0x1 vector fdintr
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disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 ^^^^^^^^^
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disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
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#tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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</verb>
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<p>Next, you create a device called <tt>/dev/ft0</tt> by going into
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<tt>/dev</tt> and run the following command:
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<verb>
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sh ./MAKEDEV ft0
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</verb>
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<p>for the first device. <tt/ft1/ for a second one and so on.
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<p>You will have a device called <tt>/dev/ft0</tt>, which you can
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write to through a special program to manage it called
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``<tt/ft/'' - see the man page on <htmlurl
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?ft" name="ft">
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for further details.
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<p>Versions previous to <tt/-current/ also had some trouble dealing
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with bad tape media; if you have trouble where <tt/ft/ seems to
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go back and forth over the same spot, try grabbing the latest
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version of <tt/ft/ from <tt>/usr/src/sbin/ft</tt> in
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<tt/-current/ and try that.
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</sect>
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