Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:36:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: FreeBSD-STABLE <FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003251130120.30411-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241334320.53195-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> One particularly worrisome note (well, to me, anyway) that appeared in this >> thread mentioned the requirement to use "options OLD_ISA" (or something >> like that) to get Voxware to work in 4.0/CURRENT. Is support for older, >> pure ISA machines going away, too? > >Get your facts straight: > >1) 5.0, not 4.0 >2) No Do people honestly think ISA support is disappearing? From an OS that just released its first version that supports MCA busses? If anything old, obscure hardware support is getting better, not going away. The only thing going away is the old method of interfacing ISA drivers with the kernel. Everything is moving to newbus, and I can think of very few drivers which aren't making that transition. And if someone jumped up and down screaming bloody murder that their favorite driver hadn't been newbussed yet, and there wasn't a replacement, I'm sure something would be done. ------------------------------------------------------------- | -Brandon D. Valentine bandix at looksharp.net | bandix on EFnet IRC BVRiker on AIM ------------------------------------------------------------- | "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to | The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their | property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a | stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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