Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:21:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607110721.JAA14338@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960710170116.4397A-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Jul 10, 96 05:11:41 pm"
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As John Fieber wrote: > Some people have modems on sio2 or 3 because the UARTs on sio0 > and 1 are crappy unbuffered ones. For these people, eliminating > sio2 and 3 may not be a complete showstopper, thanks to the -c > boot option, but it is a hassles regardless. Note that they will remain using -c anyway, since the likelihood that their internal modem is configured to the IRQ the GENERIC kernel thinks it were is minimal. (Unlike with sio0 and sio1, which use the default IRQ.) Removing sio2 and sio3, thus *forcing* them to think about their hardware, and boot with -c, was IMHO the best effect of Jordan's changes. Sigh, this is the only change he reverted now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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