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+#	$NetBSD: GENERIC,v 1.22 2000/01/23 20:08:03 soda Exp $
+#
+#	Generic configuration file for MIPS R4400 PICA system
+#
+
+include		"arch/pica/conf/std.pica"
+
+maxusers	8
+
+# Need to set locally
+options 	TIMEZONE="8*60"		# minutes west of GMT (for)
+options 	DST=1			# use daylight savings rules
+
+# Standard system options
+options 	DIAGNOSTIC		# extra kernel debugging checks
+options 	DEBUG			# extra kernel debugging support
+options 	"COMPAT_43"		# compatibility with 4.3BSD binaries
+options 	COMPAT_11
+options 	COMPAT_12
+options 	COMPAT_13
+options 	COMPAT_14
+#options 	KTRACE			# system call tracing support
+options 	"NKMEMCLUSTERS=1024"	# 4K pages in kernel malloc pool
+#options 	KGDB			# support for kernel gdb
+#options 	"KGDBRATE=19200"	# kernel gdb port rate (default 9600)
+#options 	"KGDBDEV=15*256+0"	# device for kernel gdb
+
+# System V options
+options 	SYSVMSG		# System V-like message queues
+options 	SYSVSEM		# System V-like semaphores
+options 	SYSVSHM		# System V-like memory sharing
+options 	SHMMAXPGS=1024	# 1024 pages is the default
+
+# Filesystem options
+file-system 	FFS		# fast filesystem
+file-system 	MFS		# memory-based filesystem
+file-system 	NFS		# Sun NFS-compatible filesystem (client)
+file-system 	KERNFS		# kernel data-structure filesystem
+file-system 	MSDOSFS		# Ability to read write MS-Dos filsystem
+file-system 	CD9660		# ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge file system
+file-system 	FDESC		# user file descriptor filesystem
+#file-system	UMAPFS		# uid/gid remapping filesystem
+#file-system	NULLFS		# null layer filesystem
+#file-system 	OVERLAY		# overlay file system
+#file-system	LFS		# Log-based filesystem (still experimental)
+#file-system	PORTAL		# portal filesystem (still experimental)
+
+options 	QUOTA		# FFS quotas
+#options 	FFS_EI		# FFS Endian Independant support
+#options 	SOFTDEP         # FFS soft updates support.
+options 	NFSSERVER	# Sun NFS-compatible filesystem (server)
+
+#options 	SCSIVERBOSE	# Verbose SCSI errors
+
+# Pull in config fragments for kernel crypto.  This is required for
+# options IPSEC etc. to work. If you want to run with IPSEC, uncomment
+# one of these, based on whether you use crypto-us or crypto-intl, and
+# adjust the prefixes as necessary.
+
+#prefix ../crypto-us/sys
+#cinclude "conf/files.crypto-us"
+#prefix
+
+#prefix ../crypto-intl/sys
+#cinclude "conf/files.crypto-intl"
+#prefix
+
+# Networking options
+options 	INET		# Internet protocols
+options 	INET6		# IPV6
+#options 	IPSEC		# IP security
+#options 	IPSEC_ESP	# IP security (encryption part; define w/IPSEC)
+#options 	IPSEC_DEBUG	# debug for IP security
+options 	"TCP_COMPAT_42"	# compatibility with 4.2BSD TCP/IP
+options 	GATEWAY		# IP packet forwarding
+#options 	MULTICAST	# Multicast support
+#options 	MROUTING	# Multicast routing support
+#options 	ISO		# OSI networking
+#options 	TPIP
+#options 	EON
+
+config		netbsd root on ? type ?
+
+mainbus0	at root
+cpu*		at mainbus0
+
+pica*		at mainbus0
+clock0		at pica?
+pc0		at pica?
+pms0		at pica?
+pcom0		at pica?
+pcom1		at pica?
+lpt0		at pica?
+sn0		at pica?
+
+fdc0		at pica?
+fd*		at fdc? drive ?
+
+asc0		at pica?
+scsibus* 	at asc?
+
+sd*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?
+st*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?
+cd*		at scsibus? target ? lun ?
+
+pseudo-device	sl		 2	# serial-line IP ports
+pseudo-device	ppp		 2	# serial-line PPP ports
+pseudo-device	pty		64	# pseudo ptys
+pseudo-device	bpfilter	16	# packet filter ports
+#pseudo-device	gre		2	# generic L3 over IP tunnel
+pseudo-device	loop
+pseudo-device	gif		4	# IPv[46] over IPv[46] tunnel (RFC1933)
+#pseudo-device	faith		1	# IPv[46] tcp relay translation i/f
+pseudo-device	vnd		4	# virtual disk
+pseudo-device	ccd		4	# concatenated disks
+#pseudo-device 	raid		4	# RAIDframe disk driver
+# rnd is EXPERIMENTAL
+#pseudo-device	rnd			# /dev/random and in-kernel generator