Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 21:27:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <12325.836972831@time.cdrom.com>
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After speaking with David on the phone, I decided to remove the following entries from GENERIC: sio2 sio3 lpt2 mcd1 lnc1 I would also like to remove: ed1 lp1 But will wait for more feedback on that (I think that ed1 should at least go). I've undertaken this housecleaning because I feel that GENERIC has built up more than its fair share of historical cruft (many of the doubled entries predating userconfig) and we need to get back to the concept of GENERIC as a "just get it installed with as little wasted space as possible so that it still fits on one boot floppy" kind of kernel image. As I said, many of the items I elimiated were also historical relics from before userconfig and there's no reason in the world why you now can't just tweak, say, sio0 to match whatever port you like (as goes for all the ethernet drivers). Once you're up, you can then compile a kernel which matches your various audio/video/controller cards and jettison GENERIC like a multi-stage rocket discards its booster stage. :-) I also don't really want to get into an extended debate on how someone really liked the handiness of having, say, sio2 and sio3 around so that they never had to compile a kernel to recognise their 4-port serial gommulator card. GENERIC isn't meant to please everyone or it'd have sound blaster and joystick entries and in there too. :-) Jordan
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