On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:56:35PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote: > >"Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton_at_gmail.com> writes: > >> Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? > > > >No. Modern i386 and amd64 still have an ISA bus, and devices > >connected to that bus, even if they don't have ISA slots. > > > > What you speak of is the LPC bus. LPC is intended to be a > motherboard-only bus. No connector is defined, and no LPC peripheral > daughterboards are available. But from the software's viewpoint it looks like an ISA-bus. > > So I come back to the question of why we have external devices from > 1987 still floating around in the kernel and more importantly why > these devices are enabled by default in the GENERIC kern conf? Beacuse many of them are still perfectly usable presumably. (And because there are a number of persons who do run FreeBSD on older systems that might have those devices.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013_at_student.uu.seReceived on Thu Apr 05 2007 - 16:18:37 UTC
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