On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:56:35PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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. > > 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? Don't forget about PCCard. There are still quite a few 16-bit PCCard devices floating around, especially modems. PCCard is basically ISA + some PnP magic. There are standards looming that may eventually replace it, but for now even most brand new laptops have it. ep(4) is an (E)ISA only driver, but I keep a 3Com 3CXFE574BT XJack NIC on my shelf because it _ALWAYS WORKS_. It's not fast, but when everything else is broken and you need a network connection, it certainly is handy. CraigReceived on Thu Apr 05 2007 - 18:08:52 UTC
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