Re: Do we need this junk?

From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013_at_student.uu.se>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0200
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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.

And even if that was not the case there are still lots of
not-quite-as-modern i386 systems that are perfectly suitable for
running FreeBSD 7.x that *do* have ISA-slots.  (ISA-slots were still
often included on motherboards as late as the Pentium III/AMD Athlon era.)




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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013_at_student.uu.se
Received on Thu Apr 05 2007 - 16:26:53 UTC

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