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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:58:57 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/conf NOTES 
Message-ID:  <20020926225857.336292A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020919112222.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 19-Sep-2002 Peter Wemm wrote:
> > peter       2002/09/18 20:10:23 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/conf             NOTES 
> >     sys/i386/conf        NOTES 
> >   Log:
> >   move wl (isa wavelan card, not "wi") to i386-only
> 
> Alphas have ISA slots.  The drivers should be fixed rather than
> hiding their errors.

wl uses the i386-specific old isa stuff:
#ifndef COMPAT_OLDISA
#error "The wl device requires the old isa compatibility shims"
#endif

It does not have any realistic hope of being able to be compiled on
the alpha without serious work.  This is not the newbusified wi driver.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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