Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:59:39 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: small note to GENERIC for isa dependency Message-ID: <40853ADB.6080409@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040420141453.GC18177@empiric.dek.spc.org> References: <20040414155525.GD562@jenny.daemon.li> <20040419183108.L47248@carver.gumbysoft.com> <40851021.6090706@cronyx.ru> <20040420121523.GA18177@empiric.dek.spc.org> <40852DAF.7090406@cronyx.ru> <20040420141453.GC18177@empiric.dek.spc.org>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote: >On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:03:27PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote: > > >>>The problem is that ISA and the i386 architecture are still intimately >>>involved. It's probably hidden away as something called LPC on yours. :-) >>> >>> >>I only want to say that this is normal wish to remove device "isa" as a >>"hardware missing in my modern box", cause I open it and see nothing >>except PCI slots. >> >> > >Appearances can be deceiving. I can understand the source of your confusion. >Let me attempt to clarify. > > Sorry my words wasn't clear enough. I don't have any confusion (but any way thanks, for details). But "generic" users described by me has. So all I said was mostly point of view of such users. I am working with pupils, they have even worse view in their minds :-). I am also working as tech support and even some system administrators do not know how to ln -s and how to build kernel. :-( I must confess that I tried to remove isa device from config. Probably I expected that if I don't have ISA bus in explicit form I don't need explicit device. That I can turn of some part of code system needs for support of non-generic-isa devices. For example old style compatibility wrapper (now we dont have such, but then it was). (From human laziness I do not read sources, manuals and other things all the time. I know that I can try and if I break something on my personal computer I alway know how to fix it :-) I know that I was wrong in my conclusions.) rik
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