Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:28:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607110028.UAA01075@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <9607101847.AA10469@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from "Daniel Eischen" at Jul 10, 96 02:47:16 pm
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> > > > I'll compromise with you - we keep ed1, which I'm going to fold over > > > since it seems so many WD/NE have a conflicting view of what a > > > "standard setting" is. sio2/3 have already gone and I can hardly > > > accept the argument that 4 port PCs are any kind of norm. I've seen > > > literally hundreds of different PC configurations and in all but a few > > > very rare cases, it's always the same 2 ser/1 par/1 game combo. > > > > One mouse, one modem, ports full. > > > > Now try to add anything. Think of how many serial gizmo's are out there. > > Any home hacker has a mouse and modem, as an absolute freaking minimum. > > Anybody doing anything interesting has more. Like... > > I feel like I don't belong here, but... > > I have to agree with Joe. How many people have internal modems on COM3/4? > How about a PPP install for them? Last week I was working off site with the mouse and a serial line connected to a device I was testing and I had to add a modem. I was happily surprised to find my GENERIC derived kernel had a third serial port configured in it. I know I can build a kernel, but I hadn't built a kernel on that particular machine before and I wasn't at the office. Murphy could have struck. I consider GENERIC to be GENERIC and not MINIMAL - maybe you need a new target. I doubt it costs much - I suggest leaving the third com port in. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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