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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:19:44 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 legacy.c src/sys/i386/include legacyvar.h
Message-ID:  <20020924014944.GC14284@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200209231550.g8NFo6tV086431@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200209231550.g8NFo6tV086431@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Monday, 23 September 2002 at  8:50:06 -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> jhb         2002/09/23 08:50:06 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/conf             files.i386
>     sys/i386/i386        legacy.c
>     sys/i386/include     legacyvar.h
>   Log:
>   Add a new legacy(4) device driver for use on machines that do not have
>   ACPI or for when ACPI support is disabled or not present in the kernel.
>   Basically, the nexus device is now split into two with some parts
>   (such as adding default ISA, MCA, and EISA busses if they aren't found
>   as well as support for PCI bus device ivars) being moved to the legacy
>   driver.

What's the rationale for this?

Greg
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