Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 06:57:35 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Henry <brassing@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Legacy hardware dropped in 5.X Message-ID: <20050507205735.GH232@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AA7327FF-F29D-42C8-A73C-F703038D67DB@mac.com> References: <AA7327FF-F29D-42C8-A73C-F703038D67DB@mac.com>
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On Fri, 2005-May-06 18:09:12 -0400, Henry wrote: >Why was support for some legacy hardware dropped in 5.X? AFAIK, only 80386 support in GENERIC. There may be other changes in drivers supported in GENERIC. > I can't be >really specific since my knowledge on my old old machine is >limited... But it installs and works fine on 4.X but can't be >installed using 5.X. Since you haven't explained what you mean by "can't be installed", I'm not sure we can help. Can you please describe exactly what error you are seeing and when. If it's an old machine, have you tried booting with ACPI disabled? Can you also place dmesg files from verbose boots on both 4.X and 5.X somewhere - that will show what the kernel thinks is different. -- Peter Jeremy
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