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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 20 2018, 1:51 PM

I really dislike this. It's not really a stand thing, and the GENERIC assumption is weak. We should be linking it to the installed kernel's hints, which maybe we should be installing into /boot/kernel when we install it.
It's always been an ugly wart on the side of things since it was introduced in FreeBSD 4.

@imp That probably requires more work.. do we want to bite that off before 12.0? Or should I do this for now and then we fix it properly after 12.0?

@imp re the GENERIC linkage, note the original code only references GENERIC. However, a different location might be more appropriate, given this file is normally installed in /boot.