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Don't have a strong opinion on this because I'm not in the know lately, =
but was wondering:

1) if we wanted to keep NE1000/2000 support for FreeBSD in emulators?  =
Probably not I assume?
2) Does Linux nuke these devices?  why/why-not?


On Jan 25, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Warner Losh wrote:

>=20
>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 04:43, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> On 25 January 2015 at 15:02, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav =
<des@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Author: des
>>>> Date: Sun Jan 25 12:02:38 2015
>>>> New Revision: 277694
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277694
>>>>=20
>>>> Log:
>>>> Remove ISA NICs.  Anyone still using these on amd64 can build their
>>>> own kernel.
>>>>=20
>>>> Modified:
>>>> head/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
>>>=20
>>> If so, what about i386? (I'd rather not pc98)
>>> What about device isa in DEFAULTS?
>>=20
>> isa is still needed in some scenarios. I just don't remember the full =
details offhand (something about internal buses iirc... And IPMI for =
starters...)
>=20
> "isa=94 in this context should be read as =93mainbus=94 not as =93ISA =
slots=94. You can=92t
> remove it without some significant work, and even then the interface =
changes
> to long established interfaces isn=92t worth the pain.
>=20
> Warner
>=20
>=20