Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:40:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607101640.KAA23663@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199607101615.LAA25737@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199607101554.IAA04210@root.com> <199607101615.LAA25737@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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> > We have to remove sio3 because we can't disable it by default and it > > conflicts with the most common SVGA cards. > > That's a plausible argument but I remind you that we've been through several > releases with sio3 enabled. Yes, but 'newer' SVGA cards *now* blow up when sio3 is enabled. In the past this wasn't a big deal, but even in 2.1R we had quite a few folks who got wiped out by sio3 (read Usenet), and this is only going to get worse with the faster S3/ATI/Mach cards becoming more commonplace. [ Deleted opinion on changing stuff this close to release which I agree with ] Nate
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