From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 25 9:53:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E6D37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DED343F93 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 4208 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2003 17:53:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Feb 2003 17:53:44 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1PHqNhT020296; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:52:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030224.114405.41526431.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:53:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Feb-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030224172818.GA47872@dragon.nuxi.com> > "David O'Brien" writes: >: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:03:15AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: >: > I'd agree with this. All PCI devices are available for all platforms >: > that support PCI, as a general rule (exception to this rule will >: > likely be rare). Those exceptions can just be left out of the >: > NOTES.pci file. The exceptions are very likely to be MACHINE >: > dependent (some of the pc98 built-in chips are this way). >: >: I agree with this sentiment, and knowing nothing about the PC98 I don't >: understand why nyan took a lot of PCI cards (mostly RAID) out of the PC98 >: LINT. Do know why? > > No. The pc98 specific pci devices that I'm aware of tend not to have > drivers yet (some do, however). Maybe he didn't have the cards for > testing? Doesn't hurt to just make sure they compile. Look, folks, it doesn't hurt to compile all PCI drivers on all machines that support PCI. Yes, it might not be tested yet, but it should at least compile and link ok. LINT is about testing compiles. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message